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Meningococcus, this famous unknown [PDF]
Comptes Rendus Biologies, 2021 Neisseria meningitidis (meningococcus) is a Gram-negative bacterium responsible for two devastating forms of invasive diseases: purpura fulminans and meningitis.
dos Santos Souza, Isabel +4 more
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Evaluation of the MenACWY Vaccination Catch-Up Campaign Among Adolescents in Madrid: Coverage, Trends, and Determinants [PDF]
VaccinesBackground: Invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) caused by Neisseria meningitidis remains a major public health concern due to its severity, lethality, and long-term sequelae.
Pablo Estrella-Porter +5 more
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THE CULTIVATION OF THE MENINGOCOCCUS. [PDF]
Lancet, The, 1920 n ...
H Stanley Banks
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Neisseria meningitidis: a traditional extracellular pathogen with an intense intracellular lifestyle [PDF]
Frontiers in Cellular and Infection MicrobiologyNeisseria meningitidis (meningococcus) is a transitory colonizer of the human nasopharynx that occasionally, for largely unknown reasons, reaches the bloodstream, translocating across the nasopharyngeal mucosa, causing septicemia.
Silvia Caterina Resta +5 more
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Prevalence and Risk of Meningococcal Disease or Carriage During Mass Gatherings and Associated Travel: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [PDF]
Tropical Medicine and Infectious DiseaseBackground: While efforts have been made to control meningococcal disease or carriage during mass gatherings (MGs), it is still a significant problem. This meta-analysis aims to assess the prevalence and predictors of meningitis carriage during MGs and ...
Mohammed Samannodi +13 more
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A pooled analysis of the LAMP assay for the detection of Neisseria meningitidis
BMC Infectious Diseases, 2020 Background Neisseria meningitidis is a major cause of bacterial meningitis, and these infections are associated with a high mortality rate. Rapid and reliable diagnosis of bacterial meningitis is critical in clinical practice. However, this disease often
Shu-Jin Fan +10 more
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Uptake of Non-Mandatory Vaccinations in Future Physicians in Italy
Vaccines, 2021 In 2017 in Italy, a number of vaccinations became mandatory or started to be recommended and offered free of charge. In this study, we aimed at assessing the coverage rates for those vaccinations in the pre-mandatory era among students at the School of ...
Chiara Bertoncello +6 more
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Frontiers in Genetics, 2020 Rapid transmission, a critical contributory factor in outbreaks of invasive meningococcal disease, requires naïve populations of sufficient size and intermingling.
Jonathan C. Holmes +4 more
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A Syrian refugee with meningococcal empyema
Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 2020 Meningococcal infections are an important cause of mortality and morbidity in childhood. Herein we report a 2-year-old Syrian refugee boy living in Turkey diagnosed with Neisseria meningitidis serotype B infection complicated with intracranial empyema ...
Ozhan Akyol +5 more
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