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The changing presentations of meningococcal disease

F A Riordan1, O Marzouk, A P Thomson

  • 1Institute of Child Health, Alder Hey Children's Hospital, Liverpool, UK.

Summary

Meningococcal disease (MCD) is increasingly presenting as septicaemia alone, not just meningitis. This life-threatening presentation, characterized by a petechial rash, affects nearly one in five children with septicaemia alone.

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