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Neisseria meningitidis Induced Fatal Waterhouse–Friderichsen Syndrome in a Patient Presenting With Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation and Multiple Organ Failure

Brain Sciences, 2020
Neisseria meningitidis-induced acute systemic meningococcal disease is an emergency and a fatal condition that has a high mortality rate. In patients with a fulminant infection, a maculopapular petechial eruption, purpura fulminans, or an ecchymotic ...
Meng-Yu Wu, Chien-Sheng Chen, Chih-Yi Tsay, Giou-Teng Yiang, Jian-Yu Ke, Po-Chen Lin   +5 more
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Enfermedad meningocócica invasiva en paciente presumiblemente inmunocompetente

Revista Methodo, 2023
La enfermedad meningocócica invasiva es causada por la invasión de Neisseira meningitidis en el torrente sanguíneo la cual puede resultar en meningococcemia y shock séptico, púrpura fulminante, meningitis meningocócica, neumonía, artritis y pericarditis.
Diaz P, Bartoli J R
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Epidemiological Characteristics of Meningococcal Infection in Moscow

Эпидемиология и вакцинопрофилактика, 2020
Aims. The purpose of this study was to identify current epidemiological features of meningococcal infection in Moscow.Materials and methods. Cases of invasive meningococcal disease in Moscow from 2014 to 2018 and the biomaterial from patients with an ...
M. I. Gritsay, M. A. Koroleva, N. N. Fomkina, I. S. Koroleva   +3 more
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the course of a invasive meningococcal disease in a patient of military age from specific prophylaxis (clinical case)

Журнал инфектологии, 2020
Meningococcal infection is an acute infectious disease caused by Neisseria meningitidis, characterized by a polymorphism of clinical manifestations from meningococcus carriage to invasive forms.
V. V. Sharabkhanov, K. V. Zhdanov, S. M. Zakharenko, N. I. Lvov, K. V. Kozlov, E. N. Koudelka, Yu. I. Lyashenko, K. S. Ivanov, Yu. I. Bulankov, A. N. Kovalenko, M. V. Yaremenko, V. A. Cheprakova, N. A. Kuvshinova   +12 more
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Meningococcemia without Meningitis, Starting with Gastrointestinal Symptoms - Case Report

, 2023
Neisseria meningitidis infection is the main etiologic agent of meningitis of bacterial origin in the world, mainly affecting children and young adults, finding up to 15% of the population as asymptomatic carriers.
Jaime Andrés Cortés Pachajoa, Christian Camilo Lasso-Maldonado   +1 more
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Meningococcemia complicada por miocardite [PDF]

Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia, 1998
Homem de 26 anos com meningococcemia (meningite), complicada por miocardite (disfunção ventricular e isquemia miocárdica), requereu tratamento para insuficiência cardíaca e evolui com regressão da disfunção miocárdica, seis meses após o quadro infeccioso.
Francisco Manes Albanesi Fº, Ricardo Mourilhe Rocha, Rui Alves Barros   +2 more
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Progress toward the global control of Neisseria meningitidis: 21st century vaccines, current guidelines, and challenges for future vaccine development

Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 2018
The control of meningitis, meningococcemia and other infections caused by Neisseria meningitidis is a significant global health challenge. Substantial progress has occurred in the last twenty years in meningococcal vaccine development and global ...
A. W. Dretler, N. G. Rouphael, D. S. Stephens   +2 more
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First report of a disease by rhazes 10 centuries ago

International Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2019
Introduction: Abu Bakr Mohammad Ibn Zakariya Al-Razi (865–925 CE), who was known as “Rhazes” in the west, was a famous scientist of medieval ages. He has more than 200 books and treatises.
Rouzbeh R Ghafouri, Mostafa Araj-khodaei, Somaiyeh T Targhi, Mojtaba Varshochi, Zahra Parsian, Reza Yarani, Samad E J. Golzari   +6 more
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Meningococcemia: do diagnóstico ao tratamento – um estudo de caso [PDF]

, 2023
Trata-se de estudo de caso de lactente de 15 meses de idade, do sexo feminino, com diagnóstico de meningococcemia, inicialmente por meio de suspeita clínica e posteriormente confirmado com exame complementar.
Mundim, Renato Resende, de Freitas, Karen Cristina Araújo, Silva, Victória Teixeira de Oliveira, Ferreira, Ana Carolina da Bouza, Lima, Sylvia Christina Sarkis, Dias, Luísa Teixeira Fischer, Pereira, Mirley Galvão, de Castro, Larissa Ramos Xavier   +7 more
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Meningococcemia in a patient coinfected with hepatitis C virus and HIV. [PDF]

, 2000
We describe the first reported case of meningococcemia in a patient coinfected with hepatitis C virus and HIV. Hypocomplementemia secondary to hepatic dysfunction may have enhanced the patient's susceptibility to meningococcal ...
Fowler, VG, Iler, MA, Mark A. Iler, Christopher G. Nelson, John A. Bartlett, Woods, CW, Nelson, CG, Bartlett, JA, Christopher W. Woods, Vance G. Fowler   +9 more
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