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Two Clusters of Meningococcal Meningitis in Bunyangabu District, Uganda: October, 2017

Journal of Interventional Epidemiology and Public Health, 2020
Introduction: On 13 November 2017, the Uganda Ministry of Health through the Public Health Emergency Operations Centre was notified of an unknown illness that caused sudden deaths of 3 children in Bunyangabu District.
Doreen Birungi, Miriam Nakanwagi, Bernard Wandera, Steven Ndugwa Kabwama, Alex Riolexus Ario   +4 more
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A Mouse Immunogenicity Model for the Evaluation of Meningococcal Conjugate Vaccines

Frontiers in Immunology, 2022
The identification of an appropriate animal model for use in the development of meningococcal vaccines has been a challenge as humans are the only natural host for Neisseria meningitidis.
Arun B. Arunachalam, Stacey Vile, Angel Rosas   +2 more
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Enigma of Respiratory Carriage of Kingella kingae and Neisseria meningitides in Young Jordanian Children

The International Arabic Journal of Antimicrobial Agents, 2021
Background: Kingella kingae and Neisseria meningitides are gram-negative bacteria, causing several life-threatening diseases and considered as opportunistic pathogens in the upper respiratory tract of healthy carriers. The detection of these both bacteria species is difficult in routine culture methods. Objective: This study aimed to
Malak A Khanfar, Emman Badran, Basma Marrar, Ekatherina Charvalos, Asem A Shehabi   +4 more
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Evaluation of pharyngeal carriage of Neisseria meningitidis in Tehran, Iran

New Microbes and New Infections, 2022
Meningitis and meningococcal septicemia are potentially life-threatening illnesses; young people in educational institutions have been repeatedly exposed to outbreaks of meningococcal infections.
A. Fahimzad, M. Khatmi, F. Shiva, S.E. Mortazavi, F. Shirvani, F.A. Gorji   +5 more
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To What Extent Should We Rely on Antibiotics to Reduce High Gonococcal Prevalence? Historical Insights from Mass-Meningococcal Campaigns

Pathogens, 2020
In the absence of a vaccine, current antibiotic-dependent efforts to reduce the prevalence of Neisseria gonorrhoeae in high prevalence populations have been shown to result in extremely high levels of antibiotic consumption.
Chris Kenyon
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Chronic meningococcemia in a vertically HIV-infected adolescent

IDCases, 2020
Chronic meningococcemia is a rare manifestation of meningococcal disease, characterized by a period of more than one week of intermittent or continuous fever, arthralgia and skin lesions without meningitis.
Rita S.B. Cardona, Fabiana Bononi do Carmo, Suenia Vasconcelos Beltrão, Aída de Fátima T. Barbosa Gouvêa, Reinaldo Salomão, Regina Célia de Menezes Succi, Daisy Maria Machado   +6 more
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Surveillance for Neisseria meningitidis Disease Activity and Transmission Using Information Technology.

PLoS ONE, 2015
BackgroundWhile formal reporting, surveillance, and response structures remain essential to protecting public health, a new generation of freely accessible, online, and real-time informatics tools for disease tracking are expanding the ability to raise ...
S Sohail Ahmed, Ernesto Oviedo-Orta, Sumiko R Mekaru, Clark C Freifeld, Gervais Tougas, John S Brownstein   +5 more
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Interactions between factor H and Neisseria meningitidis

Molecular Immunology, 2007
A case of enteric fever was defined as isolation of Salmonella enterica serotypes typhi or paratyphi A, B and C from blood, or from stool or urine in a patient with clinical features compatible with enteric fever. Cases were considered to be imported if they occurred following travel within the prior 8 weeks.
Schneider, M, Prosser, B, Kugelberg, E, Sim, R, Lea, S, Tang, C   +5 more
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Exploitation of Neisseria meningitidis Group B OMV Vaccines Against N. gonorrhoeae to Inform the Development and Deployment of Effective Gonorrhea Vaccines

Frontiers in Immunology, 2019
Have potential clues to an effective gonorrhea vaccine been lurking in international disease surveillance data for decades? While no clinically effective vaccines against gonorrhea have been developed we present direct and indirect evidence that a ...
Helen Petousis-Harris, Fiona J. Radcliff
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Pneumopathie postoperatoire à association Haemophilus Influenzae et Neisseria meningitidis chez un enfant diabetique

The Pan African Medical Journal, 2016
Haemophilus influenzae est un hôte saprophyte du rhinopharynx chez près des deux tiers des enfants et les adultes. Neisseria meningitidis est une bactérie strictement humaine qui vit dans le rhinopharynx, pouvant provoquer une rhinopharyngite bénigne ou ...
Hicham Chemsi, Mohamed Frikh, Abdelhay Lemnouer, Bouchra Belfkih, Yassine Sekhsokh, Maryama Chadli, Mustapha Elouennass   +6 more
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