Emergency Medicine Reports – December 11, 2005

December 11, 2005

• Meningococcal Disease Part I: Epidemiology, Etiology, Pathophysiology, and Clinical Features

  Neisseria meningitidis has the dubious distinction of being the last remaining serious bacterial threat to the lives and well being of otherwise healthy Americans. In industrialized nations, the risk of death or serious illness from organisms such as Haemophilus influenzae and Streptococcus pneumoniae has been reduced greatly by the development of vaccines against these encapsulated organisms.

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