Invasive meningococcal disease without meningitis: a forgotten diagnosis

Neisseria meningitidis, a Gram-negative diplococcus, is an uncommon cause of pneumonia. There have been only about 344 cases reported worldwide from 1906 to 2015. To our knowledge, there have been only 3 cases reported in the USA in the past 2 decades. We present a case of a 72-year-old male with a...

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Autores principales: Walayat, Saqib, Hussain, Nooreen, Malik, Abdullah H, Vazquez-Melendez, Elsa, Aulakh, Bhagat S, Lynch, Teresa
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dove Medical Press 2018
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5905520/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29695936
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/IMCRJ.S154807

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5905520/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29695936
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/IMCRJ.S154807

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