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Meningococcemia in a patient coinfected with hepatitis C virus and HIV
C G Nelson1, M A Iler, C W Woods
1Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA.
Emerging Infectious Diseases
|November 15, 2000
Abstract:
We describe the first reported case of meningococcemia in a patient coinfected with hepatitis C virus and HIV. Hypocomplementemia secondary to hepatic dysfunction may have enhanced the patient's susceptibility to meningococcal infection.