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... particularly of meningococcal meningitis. In cases of meningococcal meningitis, preventative treatment in close contacts with ... Meningitis caused by the bacterium Neisseria meningitidis (known as "meningococcal meningitis") can be differentiated from ... Meningitis may also result from various non-infectious causes. The term aseptic meningitis refers to cases of meningitis in ... Wikimedia Commons has media related to Meningitis. Meningitis at Curlie Meningitis U.S. Centers for Disease Control and ...

Meningitec meningococcal meningitis vaccine; Rotashield rotavirus vaccine; and, FluMist influenza vaccine. Since retiring from ... Siber holds patents on Bactogen, a diagnostic kit for bacterial meningitis, RespiGam, the first Human respiratory syncytial ...

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12 September 2013). "Effect of a serogroup A meningococcal conjugate vaccine (PsA-TT) on serogroup A meningococcal meningitis ... Epidemics of meningococcal A meningitis, which is a bacterial infection of the thin lining surrounding the brain and spinal ... "The Meningitis Vaccine Project: The Development, Licensure, Introduction, and Impact of a New Group A Meningococcal Conjugate ... "meningitis belt". In 2013, only four laboratory-confirmed cases of meningitis A were reported by the 26 countries in the ...

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WHO Fact Sheet Meningococcal meningitis WHO. Retrieved 28 December 2005. MSF Article Mental health care crucial in emergency ... For example, the "Meningitis Belt" (sub-Saharan Africa, which sees the most cases of meningitis in the world) has been "mapped ... They vaccinated 3 million Nigerians against meningitis during an epidemic in 1996 and denounced the Taliban's neglect of health ... Diseases such as diphtheria, measles, meningitis, tetanus, pertussis, yellow fever, polio, and cholera, all of which are ...

"Long-acting oily Chloramphenicol for Meningococcal Meningitis". Lancet. 352 (9130): 823. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(05)60723-4. ...

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"Meningococcal Meningitis Surveillance in the African Meningitis Belt, 2004-2013". Clinical Infectious Diseases. 61 (Suppl 5): ... "Meningitis: Meningitis Belt". Archived from the original on 2008-05-19. Retrieved 2009-10-20. "Meningitis Vaccine Project: ... Since then, meningococcal outbreaks in the meningitis belt have primarily been due to serogroups C and W. A few serogroup X ... In the African meningitis belt, the WHO defines a meningococcal epidemic as at least 100 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in a ...

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"Meningococcal meningitis in Mali: a long-term study of persistence and spread". International Journal of Infectious Diseases. ... Mali has also experienced outbreaks of meningococcal meningitis. Tuberculosis, which is a bacterial disease (not a virus like ... Mali is part of the "meningitis belt" in West Africa and the disease becomes more common in the dry season between December and ... epidemic in Sierra Leone Ebola virus disease in Nigeria Education in Mali HIV/AIDS in Mali 2009-10 West African meningitis ...

Epidemic group C meningococcal meningitis in Upper Volta, 1979. Bull World Health Organ 1983;61:325 330. Shands KN, Schmid GP, ... meningococcal disease and Toxic Shock Syndrome. Notable accomplishments included development of a new method for observational ... which was responsible for funding and implementing a research portfolio on vaccines needed to prevent bacterial meningitis and ... a cluster randomized trial of Group B meningococcal vaccine efficacy in Cuba; and Haemophilus influenzae type b conjugate ...

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They excluded properdin deficiency, which can be accompanied by susceptibility to meningococcal meningitis, because of its X- ... Schifferli, J. A.; Hirschel, B. (1985). Meningococcal meningitis in the first case of complement deficiency. (Letter) Lancet II ... a scientist who gave the first description of complement system deficiency and who himself died of meningococcal meningitis. ... was an immunologist specializing in the study of infections of meningococcal bacteria that often result in meningococcal ...

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Todar K. "Pathogenic Neisseriae: Gonorrhea, Neonatal Ophthalmia and Meningococcal Meningitis". Todar's Online Textbook of ... N. gonorrhoeae is the causative agent of gonorrhea and N. meningitidis is one cause of bacterial meningitis. N. gonorrhoeae is ... In rare cases, disseminated infection may cause infection of the meninges of the brain and spinal cord (meningitis) or ... Ladhani SN, Lucidarme J, Parikh SR, Campbell H, Borrow R, Ramsay ME (June 2020). "Meningococcal disease and sexual transmission ...

Symptoms of meningococcal meningitis are easily confused with those caused by other bacteria, such as Haemophilus influenzae ... Meningococcus can cause meningitis and other forms of meningococcal disease. It initially produces general symptoms like ... Current guidance in the United Kingdom is that if a case of meningococcal meningitis or septicaemia (infection of the blood) is ... Receiving a dose of the Meningococcal vaccine before traveling to a country in the "meningitis belt" or having a booster ...

Meningococcal meningitis is endemic in the tropical meningococcal belt of Africa. Vaccination is required for pilgrims going to ... CDC re: Meningococcal Meningitis Archived 2006-09-22 at the Wayback Machine CDC re:Malaria Archived 2006-09-22 at the Wayback ...

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On 7 January 1999 Aaron contracted Meningitis C. and Meningococcal sepsis. As a result of this illness Aaron was in a ... In 2007 Aaron began to get involved in wheelchair races and raised money for a Meningitis charity by completing a 10 km race in ...

The residents of Sarh suffered a meningococcal meningitis epidemic in 1990. Sarh is located on the Chari River, 350 miles (560 ... "The 1990 meningococcal meningitis epidemic of Sarh (Chad): how useful was an earlier mass vaccination?". Acta Trop. 59: 211-22 ...

In this form of meningococcal disease, meningitis generally does not occur. Low levels of blood glucose and sodium, high levels ... "Deficiency of the eighth component of complement associated with recurrent meningococcal meningitis--case report and literature ... If the causal agent is suspected to be meningitis a lumbar puncture is performed. If the causal agent is suspected to be ... Fulminant infection from meningococcal bacteria in the bloodstream is a medical emergency and requires emergent treatment with ...

"Early management of suspected bacterial meningitis and meningococcal septicaemia in adults". Journal of Infection. 46 (2): 75- ... After retiring from clinical practice in 1989 he continued to be very active, serving on Meningitis Research Foundation's ... "A tribute to Professor Harold Lambert". Meningitis Research Foundation. 21 April 2017. Higgs, Roger (27 October 2017). " ... Lambert's main research interests were meningitis, respiratory infections, and the optimal use of antibiotics. ...

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... meningococcal meningitis, and schistosomiasis, a water contact disease, as of 2005. Roughly 37% of Angolans are Ovimbundu, 25% ...