Morbidity and Mortality of Meningococcal Disease in Gaza Governorates. Occupied Palestinian Territory, Ten years Follow up 2005-2014
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Meningococcal disease is a serious life-threatening bacterial infection caused by Neisseria meningitides with its most common clinical presentations: meningococcal meningitis (which has high morbidity and low mortality) and meningococcemia or Meningococcal septicemia (which has low morbidity and high mortality). Globally, Neisseria meningitidis causes meningitis in about 47.3% of cases and Meningococcemia in about 43.3% (Fgure 1) [1]. The case fatality rate in Meningococcal Meningitis is around 10% and in Meningococcemia it may exceed 50%.
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