meningococcemia

One, called meningococcemia, is particularly deadly and can kill an otherwise healthy person in less than 24 hours.

Cases of meningococcemia leading to severe meningoencephalitis are common among young children and the elderly.

Symptoms of meningococcemia are, at least initially, similar to those of influenza.

The company also said it was continuing to test the drug in children with fulminant meningococcemia, a bacterial infection.

Two hours later, he died of meningococcemia.

At age six she contracted meningococcemia, which resulted in both of her legs being amputated below the knee.

Acute meningococcemia can kill you within hours.

There are two forms of meningococcemia.

Furthermore, the rash may be difficult to distinguish from those that accompany other infections like measles or meningococcemia.

Fulminant meningococcemia is a medical emergency and needs to be treated with adequate antibiotics as fast as possible.

In some of them, the bacteria dump large amounts of toxins into the bloodstream, causing meningococcemia.

She suggests meningococcemia.

Two of the cases were meningitis; the other two were meningococcemia, or infections of the blood stream.

The University of Virginia began providing information about the disease and the vaccine to freshmen after five students became critically ill with meningococcemia in the mid-1990's.

Chronic meningococcemia.

Only two people in all of New York were officially known to have contracted chronic meningococcemia that winter, she told me when I was done chuckling.

At GMA 7, he covered the first outbreak of meningococcemia in Baguio City.

"I'd also consider that the gram stain could have been wrong and that would let in not only strep and staph but meningococcemia as well.

Myocarditis can be a complication of meningococcemia and can be contributive to shock seen in this form of disease.

It was also during Yaranon's term that a limited outbreak of meningococcemia in Baguio City dampened tourism during the usually busy summer months.

While the first two victims died of meningococcal meningitis, which infects the nervous system, the third apparently died of meningococcemia, which infects the bloodstream.

Fluminant meningococcemia develops very rapidly and is more severe than chronic meningococcemia, which has a waxing and waning course.

THE company hopes to win approval by 2009 for Neuprex as a treatment for meningococcemia in Europe under new rules granting easier approvals for certain drugs.

By mid-morning she developed a small blemish on her neck, and her mother rushed her to Waiheke Ostend Medical Centre, where staff diagnosed meningococcemia.

Neisseria meningitidis, often referred to as meningococcus, is a bacterium that can cause meningitis and other forms of meningococcal disease such as meningococcemia, a life-threatening sepsis.