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Pediatric Care Online, 2022
Key Points Meningococcemia occurs when the bacteria Neisseria meningitidis enters the bloodstream and causes sepsis. Meningococcemia is rare but has a high mortality rate. Risk factors for meningococcemia include age younger than 1 year, living in crowded conditions, and complement deficiencies. Vaccines do not prevent infection from all
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Key Points Meningococcemia occurs when the bacteria Neisseria meningitidis enters the bloodstream and causes sepsis. Meningococcemia is rare but has a high mortality rate. Risk factors for meningococcemia include age younger than 1 year, living in crowded conditions, and complement deficiencies. Vaccines do not prevent infection from all
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Journal of Neuroscience Nursing, 1984
Meningococci in their pathogenic state can result in meningitis and/or meningococcemia. Fulminant meningococcemia has a high fatality rate and encompasses multiple complications which occur concurrently. Only with immediate and intensive care treatment can there be any hope of survival. Even with survival of the disease, the resulting complications and
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Meningococci in their pathogenic state can result in meningitis and/or meningococcemia. Fulminant meningococcemia has a high fatality rate and encompasses multiple complications which occur concurrently. Only with immediate and intensive care treatment can there be any hope of survival. Even with survival of the disease, the resulting complications and
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Predispositions to Meningococcemia
New England Journal of Medicine, 1997To the Editor: The Image in Clinical Medicine titled ``Meningococcemia'' (March 6 issue)1 was accompanied by a brief case history and showed the peripheral-blood smear of a 14-year-old boy with men...
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Journal of the American Medical Association, 1929
ABSTRACT Meningococcemia, unaccompanied by meningitis, or with meningitis occurring as a late complication, continues to be reported with great rarity in the United States. In 1924 Dock1 was able to find reports of nine cases in the American literature, and since that time only four more have been published. In contrast, the foreign literature contains
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ABSTRACT Meningococcemia, unaccompanied by meningitis, or with meningitis occurring as a late complication, continues to be reported with great rarity in the United States. In 1924 Dock1 was able to find reports of nine cases in the American literature, and since that time only four more have been published. In contrast, the foreign literature contains
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Fulminant Neonatal Meningococcemia
Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, 1980Neisseria meningitidis is a rare cause of infection in infants younger than 2 months of age, presumably because of transplacental passage of protective maternal antibodies. In most reported cases of meningococcal disease in neonates, a relatively mild clinical course has been observed.
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Journal of the American Medical Association, 1934
Meningococcemia, unaccompanied by meningitis or with meningitis occurring as a late complication, has been reported infrequently in the American literature. Cases reported in the foreign journals outnumber those in America in the proportion of six to one. Four cases have been diagnosed at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital.
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Meningococcemia, unaccompanied by meningitis or with meningitis occurring as a late complication, has been reported infrequently in the American literature. Cases reported in the foreign journals outnumber those in America in the proportion of six to one. Four cases have been diagnosed at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital.
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