meningococcal meningitis
Diagnosis of Meningococcal Meningitis by Broad Range Bacterial PCR with Cerebrospinal Fluid
... of meningococcal meningitis in a cul- ture-negative ...detect meningococcal DNA in 54 CSF samples from patients with meningococcal disease and from ...the meningococcal insertion se- ...
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“Remarkable Improvement”: Sulfa Drugs and Pediatric Meningococcal Meningitis, 1937–1949
... revolutionized meningococcal meningitis treatment in 1937 by ad- ministering sulfanilamide subcutane- ously and intrathecally to 10 patients, 5 of whom were younger than 10 ...
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STABILITY ANALYSIS OF SCIR-SI COMPARTMENTAL MODEL FOR MENINGOCOCCAL MENINGITIS DISEASE BETWEEN TWO REGIONS
... Meningococcal meningitis, caused by Neisseria meningitides, is a serious form of meningitis and has the highest mortality rate if ...addition, meningitis caused by this type of bacteria is ...
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Ciprofloxacin for contacts of cases of meningococcal meningitis as an epidemic response: study protocol for a cluster randomized trial
... suggested that attack rates for household contacts were approximately 20 times higher than that of the general community, suggesting that this group could be an im- portant target for prevention activities [15]. On the ...
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Direct detection and serogroup characterization of Neisseria meningitidis from outbreak of meningococcal meningitis in Delhi
... As evident from the results, smear microscopy and culture lacked sensitivity for detection of N. meningitidis in clinical samples. ctrA PCR test with an overall sensitivity of 93.15% showed a significant difference over ...
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Outer membrane protein antigens in an enzyme linked immunosorbent assay for Salmonella enteric fever and meningococcal meningitis
... Outer Membrane Protein Antigens in an Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay for Salmonella Enteric Fever and Meningococcal Meningitis J.. BEASLEY Department ofMicrobiology, Naval Medical Res[r] ...
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The elusive meningococcal meningitis serogroup: a systematic review of serogroup B epidemiology
... included meningococcal meningitis, Neis- seria meningitidis, country names, serogroup ACWY and B epidemiology, accessed through Pubmed ...bacterial meningitis (for example Streptococcus pneumoniae ...
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Inhibition of matrix metalloproteinases attenuates brain damage in experimental meningococcal meningitis
... is meningococcal meningitis (MM), which can affect 30-60% of infected patients, with adolescents and young adults being the age group at higher risk ...
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Sporadic Cases of Meningococcal Meningitis Serogroup W-135 — Ethiopia, 2013
... Abstract: Meningococcal meningitis is a serious bacterial infection of the meninges often caused by ...suspected meningitis outbreak to Regional Public Health Emergency ...confirmed meningitis ...
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An expanded age range for meningococcal meningitis: molecular diagnostic evidence from population based surveillance in Asia
... of meningococcal disease at ...a meningococcal meningitis incidence rate of 22 per 100,000 annually based on prospective population- based surveillance in 2000–2002 ...
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Toll like receptor 9polymorphisms are associated with severity variables in a cohort of meningococcal meningitis survivors
... of meningococcal meningitis (MM) is highly diverse and depends both on pathogen characteristics as on the individual immune response of the affected ...or meningococcal septic shock in the ...
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Confirmation of suspicious cases of meningococcal meningitis by PCR and enzyme linked immunosorbent assay
... of meningococcal vaccines has been accurate identification of all cases of meningococcal disease that occur in study ...of meningococcal disease that are cul- ture ...a meningococcal vaccine ...
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Recurring Epidemics of Meningococcal Meningitis in African Meningitis Belt: A Review of Challenges and Prospects
... major meningococcal meningitis (MCM) ...African meningitis belt strongly indicate a close linkage between the activity of the causative agent of MCM and climate ...
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Cerebrospinal fluid cytokine and chemokine profile in patients with pneumococcal and meningococcal meningitis
... pathogen strain, the host’s age and the time of the LP after infection (as it was observed in our data). Strains of N. meningitidis seem to be able to induce different cyto- kine profiles [33,34]. Considering the age of ...
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Meningococcal Meningitis Presenting As Acute Cerebellar Ataxia
... Until a recent paper by Schwartz,’ describ- ing four children with purulent meningitis in whom ataxia was the prominent presenting feature, ataxia has not been reported as the presenting[r] ...
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Epidemiological changes in meningococcal meningitis in Niger from 2008 to 2011 and the impact of vaccination
... of meningitis from Niger may have been the massive vaccination of the population with the PS A/C vaccine during the previous three years, especially during the large outbreak in ...PS meningococcal vaccines ...
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Recurrent Meningococcal Meningitis with Absence of the Sixth Component of Complement: An Evaluation of Underlying Immunologic Mechanisms
... As in other people with late-acting complement component defects, our patient’s serum lacked bac- teriobytic activity, but provided normal chemotac- tic, opsonic, alternative complement [r] ...
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Meningococcal Meningitis in Familial Deficiency of the Fifth Component of Complement
... episodes of disseminated gonococcal disease oc- curred in one of the two homozygous C5-deflcient patients.4 The occurrence of invasive Neisseria in all four C5-deflcient siblings in the [r] ...
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Counterimmunoelectrophoresis in the diagnosis of bacterial meningitis
... This means that, used as the only method, CGE gave the specific diagnosis in the same number of cases of group A meningococcal meningitis as culture and that an increase of about 30% in [r] ...
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Phenotypic and genotypic characterization of meningococcal carriage and disease isolates in Burkina Faso after mass vaccination with a serogroup a conjugate vaccine
... African meningitis belt, a sub-Saharan region stretching from Senegal to Ethiopia [1,2], the popula- tions are affected by annual outbreaks of meningococcal meningitis during the dry ...
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