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