"Neisseria meningitidis" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A species of gram-negative, aerobic BACTERIA. It is a commensal and pathogen only of humans, and can be carried asymptomatically in the NASOPHARYNX. When found in cerebrospinal fluid it is the causative agent of cerebrospinal meningitis (MENINGITIS, MENINGOCOCCAL). It is also found in venereal discharges and blood. There are at least 13 serogroups based on antigenic differences in the capsular polysaccharides; the ones causing most meningitis infections being A, B, C, Y, and W-135. Each serogroup can be further classified by serotype, serosubtype, and immunotype.
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D009345
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B03.440.400.425.550.550.641 B03.660.075.525.520.500
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| 1996 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2002 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2003 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2005 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2006 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2008 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2013 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Neisseria meningitidis" by people in Profiles.
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An adolescent female with fever, rash, and arthralgias. Clin Pediatr (Phila). 2013 May; 52(5):475-8.
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Children with bacterial meningitis presenting to the emergency department during the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine era. Acad Emerg Med. 2008 Jun; 15(6):522-8.
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Unusual soft tissue manifestations of Neisseria meningitidis infections. Clin Pediatr (Phila). 2008 May; 47(4):400-3.
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Meningococcal cellulitis and sialadenitis. South Med J. 1998 Mar; 91(3):287-8.
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Rapid determination of outbreak-related strains of Neisseria meningitidis by repetitive element-based polymerase chain reaction genotyping. J Infect Dis. 1996 Oct; 174(4):760-7.
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Effects of causative organism and presence or absence of meningitis on white blood cell counts in children with bacteremia. J Emerg Med. 1988 Jan-Feb; 6(1):33-5.
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Epidemic meningococcal disease in an elementary-school classroom. N Engl J Med. 1982 Nov 11; 307(20):1255-7.