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Collegium antropologicum, Vol. 34 No. 4, 2010.

Preliminary communication

Fulminant Meningococcal Sepsis in a Young Child – A Case Report

Elizabeta Horvatić
Ivan Soldo
Aleksandar Včev
Dražen Bedeković
Marija Glasnović
Ivica Bošnjak
Ksenija Marjanović
Mijo Bardek
Sanda Goll-Barić
Refmir Tadžić

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Abstract

We are presenting a case of isolated fulminant meningococcal sepsis with two and a half year old child. Initial symptoms were obscure and common to many medical conditions, but also previously described as symptoms of meningococcal sepsis. Unrecognizing the seriousness of the condition child died at home, within few hours after examination and discharge from the hospital. Autopsy and microbiological findings unquestionably proved that the child died from septic shock caused by fulminant meningococcal sepsis.

Keywords

sepsis; meningococcal infections; Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome; Neisseria meningitidis

Hrčak ID:

62855

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/62855

Publication date:

30.12.2010.

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