Chronic meningococcemia: a rare presentation of meningococcal disease: case report

• Main Authors: Antonio Adolfo Guerra Soares Brandão (Author), Aleksander Snioka Prokopowitsch (Author), Fernando Peixoto Ferraz de Campos (Author), Liz Andrea Kawabata Yoshihara (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: University of São Paulo, 2012-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Chronic meningococcemia is a rare clinical presentation within the spectrum of infections due to Neisseria meningitidis, which was first described in 1902. It is defined as a chronic and benign meningococcal bacteremia without meningeal signs or symptoms with at least one week's duration, chara...