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Acute myelopathy with sudden paraplegia as the sole manifestation of meningococcal meningitis

Libyan Journal of Medicine, 2010
Acute myelopathy with sudden paraplegia is a very rare manifestation of meningococcal meningitis, with only a few cases reported in the literature.
Wanis H. Ibrahim, Osama R. Elalamy, Sanjay H. Doiphode, Hassan Mobyaed, Adham Darweesh   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Assessment of acute headache in adults - what the general physician needs to know. [PDF]

, 2018
Headache is common. Up to 5% of attendances to emergency departments and acute medical units are due to headache. Headache is classified as either primary (eg migraine, cluster headache) or secondary to another cause (eg meningitis, subarachnoid ...
Agrawal, Cappelen-Smith, Dodick, Hoffmann, Mac Grory, Macdonald, omi, Savitz, Sheikh, Solomon   +9 more
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Meningitis epidemics shift in sub-Saharan belt

International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2018
Meningococcal meningitis (MCM) poses a serious threat to public health in Africa. Epidemics appear irregularly every 5–12 years, especially in the regions across sub-Saharan ‘meningitis belt’. This study investigated the long-term spatiotemporal dynamics
Shi Zhao, Qianying Lin, Daihai He, Lewi Stone   +3 more
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Comparing laboratory surveillance with the notifiable diseases surveillance system in South Africa

International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2017
Objective: The aim of this study was to compare laboratory surveillance with the notifiable diseases surveillance system (NDSS) in South Africa. Methods: Data on three tracer notifiable diseases – measles, meningococcal meningitis, and typhoid – were ...
F.G. Benson, A. Musekiwa, L. Blumberg, L.C. Rispel   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Vaccination in emergencies. [PDF]

, 1999
Nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) are the main actors of vaccine delivery during complex humanitarian emergencies such as large population displacements.
Paquet, C
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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
doaj   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source

The Dual Role of Lipids of the Lipoproteins in Trumenba, a Self-Adjuvanting Vaccine Against Meningococcal Meningitis B Disease

AAPS Journal, 2016
Trumenba (bivalent rLP2086) is a vaccine licensed for the prevention of meningococcal meningitis disease caused by Neisseria meningitidis serogroup B (NmB) in individuals 10–25 years of age in the USA.
Yin Luo, O. Friese, H. Runnels, L. Khandke, G. Zlotnick, A. Aulabaugh, Thomas Gore, E. Vidunas, S. Raso, E. Novikova, Emilia Byrne, Michael R. Schlittler, Don R. Stano, R. Dufield, Sandeep Kumar, A. Anderson, K. Jansen, J. Rouse   +17 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Doença meningocócica: comparação entre formas clínicas Meningococcal disease: comparison between clinical forms

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 2007
Visando avaliar formas clínicas da doença meningocócica, foram revistos 201 casos diagnosticados como doença meningocócica, em Hospital Universitário da Universidade Federal Fluminense; durante o período de 1971 a 1996, dos quais 185 preencheram os ...
Nádia Stella-Silva, Solange Artimos Oliveira, Keyla Belízia Feldman Marzochi   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Meningococcal pericarditis in the absence of meningitis [PDF]

Infection, 1987
A 16 year-old female presented with cardiac tamponade due to purulent meningococcal pericarditis without concomitant meningitis or meningococcaemia. She recovered after aspiration of the pericardial effusion and administration of a high dose of benzylpenicillin via a continuous infusion.
Dorp, W.T. van, Rees, C. van, Meer, J.W.M. van der, Thompson, J.   +3 more
openaire   +4 more sources