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Serogroup B Meningococcal Sepsis and Meningitis Associated With Meningococcal Acute Otitis Media, and Paranasal Sinusitis in an Infant: A Case Report

Meningococcal disease (MD) is a potentially lethal condition. Typically, following infection, MD manifests with high fever, with signs and symptoms of severe septicemia with or without purpura, and in more than half of cases with meningitis. Acute otitis media (AOM) caused by Neisseria meningitidis...

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Autores principales: Chacon-Cruz, Enrique, Lopatynsky, Erika Z
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10234028/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37273326
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.38430
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description Meningococcal disease (MD) is a potentially lethal condition. Typically, following infection, MD manifests with high fever, with signs and symptoms of severe septicemia with or without purpura, and in more than half of cases with meningitis. Acute otitis media (AOM) caused by Neisseria meningitidis has scarcely been reported, mostly without severe MD, and there are no reports of meningococcal paranasal sinusitis (PS). We present the case of a previously healthy 11-month-old infant who started with fever and cough and further developed intense irritability and right spontaneous purulent otorrhea, with subsequent increased fever and seizures. Blood, cerebrospinal, and middle ear fluid cultures were positive for N. meningitidis serogroup B, and a CT scan showed both maxillary and ethmoidal sinusitis. Intravenous ceftriaxone was administered for eight days, and three months following discharge, no sequelae were identified. This is the first report of a patient with MD associated with sepsis, meningitis, AOM, and PS.
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spelling pubmed-102340282023-06-02 Serogroup B Meningococcal Sepsis and Meningitis Associated With Meningococcal Acute Otitis Media, and Paranasal Sinusitis in an Infant: A Case Report Chacon-Cruz, Enrique Lopatynsky, Erika Z Cureus Otolaryngology Meningococcal disease (MD) is a potentially lethal condition. Typically, following infection, MD manifests with high fever, with signs and symptoms of severe septicemia with or without purpura, and in more than half of cases with meningitis. Acute otitis media (AOM) caused by Neisseria meningitidis has scarcely been reported, mostly without severe MD, and there are no reports of meningococcal paranasal sinusitis (PS). We present the case of a previously healthy 11-month-old infant who started with fever and cough and further developed intense irritability and right spontaneous purulent otorrhea, with subsequent increased fever and seizures. Blood, cerebrospinal, and middle ear fluid cultures were positive for N. meningitidis serogroup B, and a CT scan showed both maxillary and ethmoidal sinusitis. Intravenous ceftriaxone was administered for eight days, and three months following discharge, no sequelae were identified. This is the first report of a patient with MD associated with sepsis, meningitis, AOM, and PS. Cureus 2023-05-02 /pmc/articles/PMC10234028/ /pubmed/37273326 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.38430 Text en Copyright © 2023, Chacon-Cruz et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Chacon-Cruz, Enrique
Lopatynsky, Erika Z
Serogroup B Meningococcal Sepsis and Meningitis Associated With Meningococcal Acute Otitis Media, and Paranasal Sinusitis in an Infant: A Case Report
title Serogroup B Meningococcal Sepsis and Meningitis Associated With Meningococcal Acute Otitis Media, and Paranasal Sinusitis in an Infant: A Case Report
title_full Serogroup B Meningococcal Sepsis and Meningitis Associated With Meningococcal Acute Otitis Media, and Paranasal Sinusitis in an Infant: A Case Report
title_fullStr Serogroup B Meningococcal Sepsis and Meningitis Associated With Meningococcal Acute Otitis Media, and Paranasal Sinusitis in an Infant: A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Serogroup B Meningococcal Sepsis and Meningitis Associated With Meningococcal Acute Otitis Media, and Paranasal Sinusitis in an Infant: A Case Report
title_short Serogroup B Meningococcal Sepsis and Meningitis Associated With Meningococcal Acute Otitis Media, and Paranasal Sinusitis in an Infant: A Case Report
title_sort serogroup b meningococcal sepsis and meningitis associated with meningococcal acute otitis media, and paranasal sinusitis in an infant: a case report
topic Otolaryngology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10234028/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37273326
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.38430
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