A premature infant with fulminant meningococcal septicaemia.
Scand J Infect Dis
; 35(5): 345-8, 2003.
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ABSTRACT
The case is described of a 10-week-old preterm infant, a twin boy born at 34 weeks of gestational age. The day after a hernia operation he had a rapidly progressive fulminant Neisseria meningitidis serogroup B septicaemia, of which he died despite immediate and adequate treatment. No secondary cases occurred among other infants on the neonatal intensive care unit. Epidemiological investigation revealed that of 185 bacterial throat cultures performed on 17 infants on the ward, 37 close relatives to the infants and 131 medical personnel in contact with the deceased patient, 4 (2.2%) were asymptomatic carriers of N. meningitidis. Serotyping and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis of the genomic DNA of the N. meningitidis isolates revealed that the infant and his father had closely related strains.
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Colección:
01-internacional
Banco de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Recien Nacido Prematuro
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Sepsis
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Infecciones Meningocócicas
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Neisseria meningitidis
Tipo de estudio:
Etiology_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
Límite:
Humans
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Male
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Newborn
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Scand J Infect Dis
Año:
2003
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
Suecia