A 42-year-old woman came to a local emergency room with a 1-day history of nausea, emesis, and nonbloody diarrhea. Her medical history was significant only for inflammatory bowel disease. She was ...

William Hewes died aged 22 at Homerton Hospital in January last year within 24 hours of being admitted after his meningitis, caused by a meningococcal infection, developed into sepsis. The sporty ...

Peter Tyson Meningococcal bacteria can cause two life-threatening conditions: meningitis and sepsis. In meningitis, the bacteria attack the lining around the brain called the meninges. They breach ...

The case of meningococcal meningitis is a man in his 70s in northern Taiwan who did not visit other countries recently and died two weeks after the onset of symptoms, CDC Epidemic Intelligence Center ...

The Mobile County Health Department has confirmed a case of meningococcal disease -- the first case reported in the county ...

Pharmacists have seen a huge surge in demand for vaccine jabs after a change in the rules. Superdrug has seen a 400% surge in ...

Here's what bacterial meningitis is, how it's different from viral and other types of meningitis, and what treatment can be ...

The FDA has started a review of GSK’s five-in-one meningococcal vaccine, cueing up a decision in mid-February next year, as it tries to chase down a rival candidate from Pfizer cleared last year.

In February 2010, a quadrivalent conjugate vaccine (Menveo; Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics) was approved by the US FDA to prevent invasive meningococcal disease caused by Neisseria meningitidis ...

Despite similar clinical presentations, the molecular and cellular processes that elicit the sepsis response differ depending on whether the organism is gram-negative, gram-positive, fungal ...