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Improved survival of children with sepsis and purpura: effects of age, gender, and era.

Maat M, Buysse CM, Emonts M, Spanjaard L, Joosten KF, de Groot R, Hazelzet JA.

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Neisseria meningitidis phenotypic markers and septicaemia, disease progress and case-fatality rate of meningococcal disease: a 20-year population-based historical follow-up study in a Danish county.

Jensen ES, Schønheyder HC, Lind I, Berthelsen L, Nørgård B, Sørensen HT.

J Med Microbiol. 2003 Feb;52(Pt 2):173-9.PMID: 12543925 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articlesFree article

Determinants of case fatality rates of meningococcal disease during outbreaks in Makkah, Saudi Arabia, 1987-97.

El Bushra HE, Hassan NM, Al-Hamdan NA, Al-Jeffri MH, Turkistani AM, Al-Jumaily A, Ali MA, Rahama AM.

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Long-term skin scarring and orthopaedic sequelae in survivors of meningococcal septic shock.

Buysse CM, Oranje AP, Zuidema E, Hazelzet JA, Hop WC, Diepstraten AF, Joosten KF.

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Coagulopathy as a predictor of outcome in meningococcal sepsis and the systemic inflammatory response syndrome with purpura.

McManus ML, Churchwell KB.

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Patient and hospital correlates of clinical outcomes and resource utilization in severe pediatric sepsis.

Odetola FO, Gebremariam A, Freed GL.

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Facing the challenge: decreasing case fatality rates in severe sepsis despite increasing hospitalizations.

Dombrovskiy VY, Martin AA, Sunderram J, Paz HL.

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Improvements in the outcome of children with meningococcal disease.

Paize F, Playfor SD.

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[Definitions of sepsis in severe juvenile meningococcal infection. A review of 80 cases]

Castellanos Ortega A, Gandarillas González MA, Teja Barbero JL, Ortiz Melón F, Obeso González T, Prieto Valderrey F, Santidrián Miguel JP.

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Reduction in case fatality rate from meningococcal disease associated with improved healthcare delivery.

Booy R, Habibi P, Nadel S, de Munter C, Britto J, Morrison A, Levin M; Meningococcal Research Group.

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Increased case-fatality rate associated with outbreaks of Neisseria meningitidis infection, compared with sporadic meningococcal disease, in the United States, 1994-2002.

Brooks R, Woods CW, Benjamin DK Jr, Rosenstein NE.

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Meningococcal disease in Dallas County, Texas: results of a six-year population-based study.

Pastor P, Medley FB, Murphy TV.

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Meningococcal infections in children from Arkansas.

Stovall SH, Schutze GE.

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Low serum cortisol in combination with high adrenocorticotrophic hormone concentrations are associated with poor outcome in children with severe meningococcal disease.

De Kleijn ED, Joosten KF, Van Rijn B, Westerterp M, De Groot R, Hokken-Koelega AC, Hazelzet JA.

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The case-fatality rate of meningococcal disease in Catalonia, 1990-1997.

Domínguez A, Cardeñosa N, Pañella H, Orcau A, Companys M, Alseda M, Oviedo M, Carmona G, Minguell S, Salleras L; Working Group on the Study of Meningococcal Disease in Catalonia, 1990-1997.

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Prevention of suicide and attempted suicide in Denmark. Epidemiological studies of suicide and intervention studies in selected risk groups.

Nordentoft M.

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Recombinant bactericidal/permeability-increasing protein (rBPI21) as adjunctive treatment for children with severe meningococcal sepsis: a randomised trial. rBPI21 Meningococcal Sepsis Study Group.

Levin M, Quint PA, Goldstein B, Barton P, Bradley JS, Shemie SD, Yeh T, Kim SS, Cafaro DP, Scannon PJ, Giroir BP.

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Mortality in severe meningococcal disease.

Thorburn K, Baines P, Thomson A, Hart CA.

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Meningococcal disease in Norway 1992-1995. Epidemiology and fatality.

Iversen BG, Aavitsland P.

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Complement activation in relation to capillary leakage in children with septic shock and purpura.

Hazelzet JA, de Groot R, van Mierlo G, Joosten KF, van der Voort E, Eerenberg A, Suur MH, Hop WC, Hack CE.

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