meningococcal disease

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meanings of meningococcaland disease

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meningococcal
adjective
uk /məˌnɪn.dʒəˈkɒkəl/ us /məˌnɪŋ.ɡoʊˈkɑː.kəl/
caused by or relating to the bacteria involved in some forms of meningitis and some other ...
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disease
noun
uk /dɪˈziːz/ us /dɪˈziːz/
(an) illness of people, animals, plants, etc., caused by infection or a failure of health rather than by ...
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Examples of meningococcal disease

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A more rigorous analysis of the epidemiological impact of vaccination for meningococcaldisease is essential for proper health economic estimates.
Factors preceding the onset of meningococcaldisease, with special emphasis on passive smoking, stressful events, physical fitness, symptoms of ill health.
The age distribution of cases was consistent with that previously observed in meningococcaldisease epidemics.
If recolonization occurs preferentially with acapsulate (and thus putatively avirulent) isolates, there may be implications for control of community outbreaks of meningococcaldisease.
A higher proportion of first year undergraduate residents was associated with an increased incidence of invasive meningococcaldisease.
Of these 26 strains, 24 were isolated from cases of invasive meningococcaldisease in the period 1976-99.
The use of serological markers of infection adds another dimension to the surveillance of meningococcaldisease.
Six of the remaining patients were notified as cases of meningococcaldisease.
In the case of meningococcaldisease, infection is serious at any age, although case fatality rates are higher in adolescents than in infants.
Our findings are plausible in light of current knowledge about transmission of meningococcaldisease.
Will we understand the epidemiology and pathogenesis of meningococcaldisease before it is eliminated by the development and deployment of effective vaccines?
In all, 43 isolates recovered from 43 patients with meningococcaldisease (meningitis and/or bacteraemia) were preserved for further study.
Over the 10-year period about 10 000 close contacts of sporadic cases of meningococcaldisease had received rifampicin prophylaxis.
The 68 notified cases of meningococcaldisease were coded as serologically confirmed (n=54), positive by microscopy (n=6) or as clinical cases (n=8).
The incidence of meningococcaldisease is highest in young children and declines through childhood, with a smaller secondary peak in disease in teenagers.
From 1996 to 2000, between 10 and 20 cases of meningococcaldisease were reported annually.
The risk of meningococcaldisease associated with day-care is not known.
Serology in the diagnosis of meningococcaldisease 71 (17 %) had been notified, namely 68 as meningococcal disease and three as meningitis of unknown aetiology.
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