Chronic meningococcemia: a rare presentation of meningococcal disease: case report

Chronic meningococcemia is a rare clinical presentation within the spectrum of infections due to Neisseria meningitidis, which was first described in 1902. It is defined as a chronic and benign meningococcal bacteremia without meningeal signs or symptoms with at least one week’s duration, characteri...

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Main Authors: Antonio Adolfo Guerra Soares Brandão, Aleksander Snioka Prokopowitsch, Fernando Peixoto Ferraz de Campos, Liz Andrea Kawabata Yoshihara
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of São Paulo 2012-03-01
Series:Autopsy and Case Reports
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Online Access:http://www.revistas.usp.br/autopsy/article/view/26084

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