Meningococcal disease progresses rapidly; early diagnosis and treatment is therefore very important. As early symptoms of this disease can be difficult to distinguish from those of common self ...

Even people familiar with meningococcal disease are astonished at the rapidity with which this rare though deadly illness can ravage the body. Within hours, patients can go from perfectly healthy ...

In February 2010, a quadrivalent conjugate vaccine (Menveo; Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics) was approved by the US FDA to prevent invasive meningococcal disease caused by Neisseria meningitidis ...

You will be able to get a quick price and instant permission to reuse the content in many different ways. The dramatic occurrence of meningococcal disease challenges doctors and attracts intense ...

This survey demonstrates that management of meningococcal infections varies among infectious disease physicians, particularly between adult and pediatric specialists. Respondents reported ...

Yet it could be that a vaccine for a different disease, meningococcal B, ends up offering some protection against gonorrhoea, because the disease causing pathogen Neisseria gonorrhoeae shares some 80% ...