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Incidence, carriage and case-carrier ratios for meningococcal meningitis in the African meningitis belt: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

PLoS ONE, 2015
BackgroundTo facilitate the interpretation of meningococcal meningitis epidemiology in the "African meningitis belt", we aimed at obtaining serogroup-specific pooled estimates of incidence, carriage and case-carrier ratios for meningococcal meningitis in
Thibaut Koutangni, Halima Boubacar Maïnassara, Judith E Mueller   +2 more
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Fatal meningococcal meningitis in a HIV-infected patient caused by serogroup C Neisseria meningitidis belonging to the non-hypervirulent clonal complex ST-60 (cc60)

Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2011
Meningococcal strains belonging to clonal complex cc60 are not associated with hypervirulent lineages and were never reported as causing disease in Latin American countries.
Claudia Ferreira de Andrade, Biologist, Denise Cotrim da Cunha, MD, Veronica Cavalcanti, Biologist, Ivano de Filippis   +3 more
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Risk of transmitting meningococcal infection by transient contact on aircraft and other transport. [PDF]

, 2009
Contact tracing of persons with meningococcal disease who have travelled on aeroplane or other multi-passenger transport is not consistent between countries.
Rachael, T., Stuart, J.M., T. RACHAEL, Schubert, K, J. M. STUART, W. HELLENBRAND, G. KRAUSE, Stuart, JM, K. SCHUBERT, Krause, Gérard, Hellenbrand, Wiebke, Schubert, K., Rachael, T, Hellenbrand, W, Krause, G   +14 more
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Clonal waves of Neisseria colonisation and disease in the African meningitis belt: eight- year longitudinal study in northern Ghana. [PDF]

PLoS Medicine, 2007
The Kassena-Nankana District of northern Ghana lies in the African "meningitis belt" where epidemics of meningococcal meningitis have been reoccurring every eight to 12 years for the last 100 years.
Julia Leimkugel, Abraham Hodgson, Abudulai Adams Forgor, Valentin Pflüger, Jean-Pierre Dangy, Tom Smith, Mark Achtman, Sébastien Gagneux, Gerd Pluschke   +8 more
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Invasive meningococcal disease and travel

Journal of Infection and Public Health, 2010
Summary: The epidemiology of invasive meningococcal disease varies geographically and in time and the risk of acquiring the disease varies regionally, as well as with living conditions and behavior.
Ziad A. Memish, Anette Goubeaud, Michael Bröker, Claudius Malerczyk, Atef M. Shibl   +4 more
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Socio-Cultural Factors Influencing the Perception and Management of Meningitis among Older Patients and Their Caregivers

Journal of Ageing and Longevity, 2022
Limited studies have investigated the socio-cultural factors influencing the management and control of Meningococcal Meningitis among older adults in Northern Nigeria.
Kafayat Mahmoud, Moshood Issah, Darlingtina Esiaka   +2 more
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Meningococcal septicaemia reported in an immunocompetent adult: A Case Report

Sri Lankan Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2020
Meningococcal meningitis is caused by the Gram negative diplococcus, Neisseria meningitidis. It is characterized by nonspecific symptoms of fever and constitutional symptoms followed by septic shock   and meningitis.
S. Puthra, P. Selladurai, N. S. Chandrasiri, A. G. H. Sugathapala   +3 more
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Sibling familial risk ratio of meningococcal disease in UK Caucasians. [PDF]

, 2003
To quantify the host genetic component of meningococcal disease (MD) susceptibility, the sibling risk ratio (lambdaS) was calculated as the ratio of observed MD cases among 845 siblings of 443 UK Caucasian cases to that expected, calculated from age ...
Haralambous, E, Hibberd, ML, Levin, M, Weiss, HA, Radalowicz, A, Booy, R   +5 more
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Assessing the Impact of TLR4 rs4986790 Polymorphism on Bacterial Meningitis Risk: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Annals of Indian Academy of Neurology
Background and Objectives: Toll-like receptor (TLR2) gene plays an important role in the pathogenesis of bacterial meningitis (such as meningococcal meningitis and pneumococcal meningitis).
Praveen Kumar Chandra Sekar, Ramakrishnan Veerabathiran   +1 more
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Systemic manifestations in the course of meningococcal disease [PDF]

Vojnosanitetski Pregled, 2009
Background/Aim. Meningococcal disease most often manifests itself as meningitis or sepsis. During the course of these diseases, other clinical events sometimes develop such as pneumonia, pericarditis, arthritis, and they are referred to as extrameningeal
Dulović Olga, Stevanović Goran, Milošević Branko, Gvozdenović Eleonora, Dokić Ljubiša, Popović Nataša, Nikolić Svetlana, Pavlović Milorad   +7 more
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