Chronic Meningococcemia - Advances in Infectious Diseases

AID > Vol.6 No.3, September 2016

Advances in Infectious Diseases

Volume 6, Issue 3 (September 2016)

ISSN Print: 2164-2648 ISSN Online: 2164-2656

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Chronic Meningococcemia ()

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DOI: 10.4236/aid.2016.63012 2,389 Downloads 4,174 Views Citations

Author(s)

Rita Veiga Ferraz, Filipa Ceia, Raquel Duro, Ana Cláudia Carvalho, Paulo Andrade, Susana Silva, António Sarmento

Affiliation(s)

Infectious Diseases Department, Instituto de Inovacao e Investigacao em Saúde (I3S), Grupo de I&D em Nefrologia e Doencas Infeciosas, Instituto Nacional de Engenharia Biomédica (INEB), Centro Hospitalar de Sao Joao, Porto, Portugal.

ABSTRACT

Neisseria meningitidis is a gram-negative diplococcus which causes invasive disease. The most frequent clinical manifestations caused by infection with this pathogen, are meningitis and fulminant septic shock. More benign forms with a subacute or chronic pattern are rare but still can evolve to meningitis and have a fatal outcome. This entity is difficult to recognize, as febrile erythema with otherwise good general condition may simulate other diseases, namely viral infections. The authors reported the cases of two healthy young adults who were misdiagnosed with a viral infection. What they really had was a meningococcemia without meningitis presenting with mild and unspecific symptoms, such as, intermittent fever and a discrete macular rash. We pretend to highlight this rare, unspecific and heterogeneous symptoms which can provoke negligence of a potentially life threatening condition.

KEYWORDS

Neisseria meningitidis, Meningococcal Disease, Chronic Meningococemia

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Ferraz, R. , Ceia, F. , Duro, R. , Carvalho, A. , Andrade, P. , Silva, S. and Sarmento, A. (2016) Chronic Meningococcemia. Advances in Infectious Diseases, 6, 97-101. doi: 10.4236/aid.2016.63012.

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