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Does clinical exposure to different skin tones during training improve diagnostic ability?

Medical Education, Volume 60, Issue 4, Page 410-417, April 2026.
Abstract Background Previous studies have shown that medical students demonstrate poorer performance when diagnosing pathology in skin of colour (SOC) compared to white skin (WS); it is important to understand the reasons underpinning this. If not addressed, poorer differential diagnostic ability in certain skin tones could entrench existing racial ...
Yusra Shammoon, Anna Coulson, Bethan Trigg, Nariell Morrison, Adam Potts, Moira Pain, Olamide Oguntimehin, Eleanor J. Hothersall‐Davies, Richard Hankins, Celia A. Brown, Amir H. Sam   +10 more
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Meningoccocal meningitis complicated with subdural effusion: a report of two infant cases

Journal of Infection in Developing Countries, 2007
Neisseria meningitidis is a major cause of invasive bacterial infection in children of all ages. Children less than 1 year of age are at greater risk of invasive disease than older children. In endemic countries, the invasive meningococcal infections are
Victor Perez-Pico,1 Eduardo Llausas-Magana,1 Angel Leon-Ramirez,1 Giordano Perez-Gaxiola,2 and Nidia Leon-Sicairos.3
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Phylogenetic relationships and regional spread of meningococcal strains in the meningitis belt, 2011–2016Research in context

EBioMedicine, 2019
Background: Historically, the major cause of meningococcal epidemics in the meningitis belt of sub-Saharan Africa has been Neisseria meningitidis serogroup A (NmA), but the incidence has been substantially reduced since the introduction of a serogroup A ...
Nadav Topaz, Dominique A. Caugant, Muhamed-Kheir Taha, Ola Brønstad Brynildsrud, Nadia Debech, Eva Hong, Ala-Eddine Deghmane, Rasmata Ouédraogo, Sani Ousmane, Kadidja Gamougame, Berthe-Marie Njanpop-Lafourcade, Seydou Diarra, LeAnne M. Fox, Xin Wang   +13 more
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[Meningococcal meningitis in adults].

Mikrobiyoloji bulteni, 1991
The clinical and laboratory findings, and the results of treatment of 16 Meningococcal meningitis cases, who were hospitalized, are investigated, and discussed with the literature. On application all of the patients had headache, meningeal irritation findings, and fever (% 75), nausea and vomiting (% 62.5), rash (% 56.25), unconsciousness (% 50), coma ...
Topçu, S., Dökmetaş, I., Yalçin, N.
openaire   +2 more sources

Meningococcal meningitis in sub-Saharan Africa: the case for mass and routine vaccination with available polysaccharide vaccines

Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2003
Endemic and epidemic group A meningococcal meningitis remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality in sub-Saharan Africa, despite the availability of the safe and inexpensive group A meningococcal polysaccharide vaccine, which is protective at all ...
Robbins John B., Schneerson Rachel, Gotschlich Emil C., Mohammed Idris, Nasidi Abdulsalami, Chippaux Jean-Philippe, Bernardino Luis, Maiga Moussa A.   +7 more
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HIB-INFECTION: MENINGITIS, CELLULITIS IN THE CHILD OF 6 MONTHS

Детские инфекции (Москва), 2015
A clinical case of Hib-infection is the clinic purulent meningitis and pannikulita young child. Shows the complexity of the differential diagnosis of meningitis in combination with panniculitis with meningococcal disease (meningitis, meningokokktsemiya).
G. A. Harchenko, V. A. Kolokolov, O. G. Kimirilova, A. A. Kimirilov   +3 more
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Analysis of TLR2, TLR4, and TLR9 single nucleotide polymorphisms in children with bacterial meningitis and their healthy family members

International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2017
Background: The aim was to analyse TLR2 rs5743708, TLR2 rs4696480, TLR4 rs4986790, TLR9 rs5743836, and TLR9 rs352140 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in children with pneumococcal and meningococcal meningitis and their family members.
Ewelina Gowin, Bogna Świątek-Kościelna, Ewelina Kałużna, Jerzy Nowak, Michał Michalak, Jacek Wysocki, Danuta Januszkiewicz-Lewandowska   +6 more
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First serogroup Y meningitis outbreak in Hubei Province Central China linked to adolescent immunization gaps

Scientific Reports
Meningococcal meningitis poses a persistent public health threat globally, with evolving epidemic serogroups complicating prevention especially in China in recent years.
Dan Li, Siquan Wang, Zhao Jiang, Fei He, Xiang Zhang, Bingqing Zhu, Hongmei Yang, Jing Lv, Lei Wang   +8 more
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Climate Regimes, El Nino-Southern Oscillation and Meningococcal Meningitis Epidemics

Frontiers in Public Health, 2015
Meningoccocal meningitis is a major public health problem that kills thousands annuallyin Africa, Europe, North and South America. Occurrence is, however, highest during thedry seasons in Sahel Africa.
Olusegun Steven Ayodele Oluwole
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A case report of multiple cerebral abscess formation complicating serogroup B Neisseria meningitidis meningitis

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2019
Background Invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) presenting with meningitis causes significant mortality and morbidity. Suppurative complications of serogroup B meningococcal sepsis are rare and necessitate urgent multidisciplinary management to mitigate ...
Ciara O’Connor, Aedin Collins, Eilish Twomey, Conor Hensey, John Caird, Patrick J. Gavin   +5 more
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