The clinical features and long-term sequelae of invasive meningococcal disease in children

Chen Stein-Zamir; Hanna Shoob; Irina Sokolov; Amin Kunbar; Nitza Abramson; Deena Zimmerman

doi:10.1097/INF.0000000000000282

The clinical features and long-term sequelae of invasive meningococcal disease in children

Chen Stein-Zamir^*
, Hanna Shoob
, Irina Sokolov
, Amin Kunbar
, Nitza Abramson
, Deena Zimmerman

^*Corresponding author for this work

Faculty of Medicine

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Abstract

We evaluated the outcome of invasive meningococcal disease in children <15 years of age (n = 181). Neisseria meningitidis serogroup B comprised 78% of bacterial isolates. Case fatality rate was 11.6%. In follow-up interviews (115/160 survivors, 72%), at least 1 long-term sequela was reported in 38/115 children (33%), including learning-academic difficulties (22.6%), hearing impairment (7%), neurologic (12.2%), behavioral (14.8%) and motor (10.4%) deficits.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	777-779
Number of pages	3
Journal	Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal
Volume	33
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1097/INF.0000000000000282
State	Published - Jul 2014

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N. meningitidis group B
children
invasive meningococcal disease
long-term sequelae

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