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epidemic meningitis

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epidemic meningitis
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(Medicine / Pathology) another name for cerebrospinal meningitis
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Noun1.epidemic meningitis - meningitis caused by bacteria and often fatal
brain fever, cerebrospinal fever, cerebrospinal meningitis
meningitis - infectious disease characterized by inflammation of the meninges (the tissues that surround the brain or spinal cord) usually caused by a bacterial infection; symptoms include headache and stiff neck and fever and nausea


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Clonal and antigenic analysis of serogroup A Neisseria meningitidis with particular reference to epidemiological features of epidemic meningitis in the People's Republic of China.
Meningococcal disease in South Africa, 1999-2002 by Klugman, Keith P. / Emerging Infectious Diseases
In 1997, the International Coordinating Group on Vaccine Provision for Epidemic Meningitis Control (ICG) was established to regulate and coordinate the procurement of meningococcal vaccine, after large epidemics in sub-Saharan Africa in 1995/1996 largely exhausted global vaccine stocks.
Needed: a meningitis vaccine. (In Burkina Faso) by UN Chronicle
To the Editor: Epidemic meningitis associated with serogroup A Neisseria meningitidis is a devastating disease in the absence of vaccination (1).
Serogroup A Neisseria meningitidis outside meningitis belt in ... by Martin, Paul M.V. / Emerging Infectious Diseases
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