Unusual presentation of meningococcal meningitis in the elderly and utility of CSF PCR testing

We present an unusual case of a previously healthy 74-year-old man who presented with diffuse weakness, severe myalgias, petechial palmar rash and hypotension, but without fever, altered mental status, nuchal rigidity or headache, who was ultimately found through PCR testing to have meningococcal me...

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Autores principales: Ranson, Elizabeth, Ship, Hannah, Garner, Omai, Yang, Shangxin, Bhattacharya, Debika
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Microbiology Society 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7660242/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33195972
http://dx.doi.org/10.1099/acmi.0.000158
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author Ranson, Elizabeth
Ship, Hannah
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Yang, Shangxin
Bhattacharya, Debika
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description We present an unusual case of a previously healthy 74-year-old man who presented with diffuse weakness, severe myalgias, petechial palmar rash and hypotension, but without fever, altered mental status, nuchal rigidity or headache, who was ultimately found through PCR testing to have meningococcal meningitis.
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spelling pubmed-76602422020-11-13 Unusual presentation of meningococcal meningitis in the elderly and utility of CSF PCR testing Ranson, Elizabeth Ship, Hannah Garner, Omai Yang, Shangxin Bhattacharya, Debika Access Microbiol Case Report We present an unusual case of a previously healthy 74-year-old man who presented with diffuse weakness, severe myalgias, petechial palmar rash and hypotension, but without fever, altered mental status, nuchal rigidity or headache, who was ultimately found through PCR testing to have meningococcal meningitis. Microbiology Society 2020-08-12 /pmc/articles/PMC7660242/ /pubmed/33195972 http://dx.doi.org/10.1099/acmi.0.000158 Text en © 2020 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. The Microbiology Society waived the open access fees for this article.
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Unusual presentation of meningococcal meningitis in the elderly and utility of CSF PCR testing
title Unusual presentation of meningococcal meningitis in the elderly and utility of CSF PCR testing
title_full Unusual presentation of meningococcal meningitis in the elderly and utility of CSF PCR testing
title_fullStr Unusual presentation of meningococcal meningitis in the elderly and utility of CSF PCR testing
title_full_unstemmed Unusual presentation of meningococcal meningitis in the elderly and utility of CSF PCR testing
title_short Unusual presentation of meningococcal meningitis in the elderly and utility of CSF PCR testing
title_sort unusual presentation of meningococcal meningitis in the elderly and utility of csf pcr testing
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7660242/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33195972
http://dx.doi.org/10.1099/acmi.0.000158
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