Meningococcal disease
Prospective Study of a Real Time PCR That Is Highly Sensitive, Specific, and Clinically Useful for Diagnosis of Meningococcal Disease in Children
... antibiotics, meningococcal disease is increasingly difficult to diagnose by ...of meningococcal PCR through a prospective comparison of real-time PCR, nested PCR, and standard culturing of blood and ...
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Assessment of Adrenal Function in the Initial Phase of Meningococcal Disease
... dren who failed the LDST and an additional 11 from the rest of the group (36% of the total) had mean 8 am ACTH values ⬍2 pmol/L, possibly indicating sec- ondary AI (ie, hypothalamic-pituitary dysfunction; Fig 4). This ...
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Meningococcal disease: changes in epidemiology and prevention
... of meningococcal disease, as well as recent advances in prevention by new ...vaccines. Meningococcal disease patterns and incidence can vary dramatically, both geographically and over time in ...
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Stability of PorA during a Meningococcal Disease Epidemic
... B meningococcal disease since mid-1991 ...of disease to date occurred in 2001, when 650 cases were reported, giving a rate of ...Elevated disease rates in excess of 14 cases per 100,000 people ...
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Meningococcal disease serogroup C
... vaccines, meningococcal disease serogroup C (MDC) remains a serious threat to global health, particularly in countries in North and Latin America, Europe, and ...conjugate meningococcal C ...
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Clinical and Hematologic Features Do Not Reliably Identify Children With Unsuspected Meningococcal Disease
... invasive meningococcal disease, 2) children with this clinical presentation may progress to severe disease, and 3) routine laboratory screening of previously healthy, nontoxic-appearing young febrile ...
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A protocol for a systematic review of the diagnostic accuracy of Loop-mediated-isothermal AMPlification (LAMP) in diagnosis of invasive meningococcal disease in children
... Background: Meningococcal disease (MD) is notoriously difficult to diagnose in the early stages of the illness and presents similarly to many self-limiting viral ...detect meningococcal DNA in under ...
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Meningococcal Disease Due to a Sulfadiazine Resistant Strain
... Meningococcal Disease Due to a Sulfadiazine Resistant Strain. http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/34/1/124[r] ...
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Meningococcal disease in NSW, 1991–2011: trends in relation to meningococcal C vaccination
... invasive meningococcal disease in NSW for the period 1991–2011, in particular since the intro- duction of the meningococcal C vaccination program in ...invasive meningococcal disease ...
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Recent Progress in the Prevention of Serogroup B Meningococcal Disease
... The clinical efficacy of OMV vaccines is primarily mediated by bactericidal antibodies to the immunodominant PorA porin (15). As a result of the antigenic diversity of PorA, this type of vaccine offers strain-specific ...
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EpiScanGIS: an online geographic surveillance system for meningococcal disease
... [22-24]. Meningococcal disease is caused by the Gram negative bacterium Neisseria meningitidis, which poses a substantial threat to childhood health throughout the world ...of disease have been ...
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Global epidemiology of invasive meningococcal disease
... the disease burden places an immense strain on the public health ...invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) varies markedly by region and over ...for Disease Prevention and Control collections ...
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Bacterial Nanoparticle As a Vaccine for Meningococcal Disease
... of disease and ...causing disease and potential use as antigens manufacturer to provider or transfer of ...of meningococcal bacteria that grow in a specific environment, 2) Transfer surface antigens ...
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A Review of Research of Vaccine against Meningococcal Disease
... this disease is known as gram-negative non-capsulated pathogen ...people. Meningococcal disease can develop quickly and results in deaths or serious problems in less than 24 hours even in people ...
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Epidemiology of Infant Meningococcal Disease in the United States, 2006-2012
... of disease and the low proportion of meningococcal cases that are preventable with vaccines that do not protect against serogroup B, which limits the potential impact of a routine meningococcal ...
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Epireview : Meningococcal disease in New South Wales,1991–2002
... Between 2000–2002, 40 deaths due to meningococcal disease were reported, which represents 5.8 per cent of all cases for this period. There were no deaths reported of indigenous cases. The proportion of ...
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Prevention and Control of Meningococcal Disease: Recommendations for Use of Meningococcal Vaccines in Pediatric Patients
... invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) occur in pediatric patients: infants younger than 1 year and adolescents 15 to 18 years of ...vaccines. Meningococcal A, C, Y, W-135 conju- gate vaccine (MCV4) ...
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Meningococcal carriage, alcohol consumption, and campus bar patronage in a serogroup C meningococcal disease outbreak
... invasive meningococcal disease are increasing in North America ...outbreak, disease was linked to patronage of a specific campus-area bar, suggesting that aspects of a campus bar environment might ...
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Extremity Pain and Refusal to Walk in Children With Invasive Meningococcal Disease
... invasive meningococcal disease had ex- tremity symptoms as part of their presenting histo- ries and/or physical ...unsuspected meningococcal disease or possible unsuspected ...
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Bench to bedside review: Genetic influences on meningococcal disease
... of meningococcal disease, which is in contrast with the association of high TNF levels and the adverse outcome shown by other studies ...in meningococcal sepsis is unclear ...during ...
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