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- Title
Clinical Features and Outcome of Pediatric Neisseria meningitidis Serogroup W135 Infection: A Report of 5 Cases.
- Authors
Faye, Albert; Mariani-Kurkdjian, Patricia; Taha, Muhamed-Kheir; Angoulvant, François; Antonios, Micheline; Aubertin, Guillaume; Soussan, Valerie; Bingen, Edouard; Bourrillon, Antoine
- Abstract
We describe 5 pediatric cases of Neisseria meningitidis serogroup W135 infection. Infectious and/or reactive extrameningeal involvement was frequent. One patient had a persistent postmeningococcal inflammatory syndrome. Four of 5 isolates belonged to the clonal complex 37. The important risk of extrameningeal complications must be borne in mind when treating children with N. meningitidis W135 infection.
- Subjects
NEISSERIA meningitidis; PEDIATRICS; JUVENILE diseases; ETIOLOGY of diseases; MEDICAL microbiology; IMMUNOLOGY -- Philosophy
- Publication
Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2004, Vol 38, Issue 11, p1635
- ISSN
1058-4838
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1086/421022