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Clinical features, outcome, and meningococcal genotype in 258 adults with meningococcal meningitis: a prospective cohort study.

Medicine - 1 Jul 2008

Heckenberg Sebastiaan G B, de Gans Jan, Brouwer Matthijs C, Weisfelt Martijn, Piet Jurgen R, Spanjaard Lodewijk, van der Ende Arie, van de Beek Diederik

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Meningococcal meningitis remains a life-threatening disease. Neisseria meningitidis is the leading cause of meningitis and septicemia in young adults and is a major cause of endemic bacterial meningitis worldwide. The Meningitis Cohort Study was a Dutch nationwide prospective observational cohort study of adults with community-acquired bacterial meningitis, confirmed by culture of cerebrospinal fluid, from...

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PMID: 18626301
DOI: 10.1097/MD.0b013e318180a6b4

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