Meningococcal Sentence Examples

Someone with meningococcal disease (meningitis and/or blood poisoning) is likely to become very unwell.

Choice of Drug Unless contraindicated (e.g. jaundice or known hypersensitivity ), rifampicin is the drug of choice for meningococcal chemoprophylaxis.

The incidence of meningococcal disease remains comparable with the corresponding quarter of 1997.

There has been a recent outbreak of meningococcal meningitis.

Objective 3. Samples of urine containing albumin fragments collected previously from children with meningococcal sepsis were remapped using SDS PAGE.

The development of further effective meningococcal vaccines therefore remains a key public health priority, they conclude.

Recommended vaccinations include Hepatitis A and B, typhoid, yellow fever, polio, meningococcal diseases and rabies.

The typical rash seen in meningococcal disease is purple in color, looking somewhat like a bruise.

At present it seems reasonable to recommend that tetravalent meningococcal vaccine be given to all persons with LCCD.

Unless the case is occurring in a person known to have been exposed to or in the midst of an epidemic of meningococcal disease, there may be no specific symptoms or signs found that help the doctor diagnose the problem.

It can be used for travelers going to areas where meningococcal disease is more common or is epidemic.

These students appear to have a somewhat higher risk of meningococcal infections.

Meningitis caused by Haemophilus influenzae and related strains (A, B C, Y, and W135) is also called meningococcal meningitis.

Meningococcal meningitis is common in minors ages two to 18.

Vaccines are available for both meningococcal and pneumococcal meningitis.

Awareness of the symptoms and signs of meningitis, especially the rash which may accompany meningococcal meningitis is very important.

The meningococcal meningitis vaccine is given by injection (shots) to provide immunization against meningococcal disease and meningitis caused by the bacterium Neisseria meningitides.

Meningococcal disease, or meningococcemia, is a leading cause of meningitis in children, and then disease can also lead to infections of the blood.

Meningococcal meningitis is different from the meningitis in infants for which vaccination is routinely given.

The meningococcal vaccine contains inactivated bacteria and cannot cause the disease.

It is effective against four of the five subtypes of meningococcal meningitis.

Children who are mildly ill at the time the shot is due can still get meningococcal vaccine.

Sulfisoxazole may be used for prophylaxis of ear infections and prevention of meningococcal infections.