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Chronic meningococcemia in a 16-year-old boy: a case report

Herein, we present a case of meningococcal disease in a patient presenting with of a three-week history of fever, cutaneous vasculitis and joint pain, in whom chronic meningococcemia was retained as presumptive diagnosis, after the disease evolved towards meningitis. This unusual case illustrates th...

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Autores principales: Kernéis, Solen, Mahé, Emmanuel, Heym, Beate, Sivadon-Tardy, Valérie, Bourgeois, Françoise, Hanslik, Thomas
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cases Network Ltd 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2740133/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19829911
http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-7103