Case Report
Neiserria Meningitis Due to W135 Strain from South India
| Poovazhagi V* and Devasena N | ||
| Thanjavur medical college, Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, India | ||
| Corresponding Author : | Poovazhagi Varadarajan MD DCH, Thanjavur medical college Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, India Tel: 044 98400 3302 Email: poomuthu@yahoo.com |
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| Received August 03, 2014; Accepted September 09, 2014; Published September 16, 2014 | ||
| Citation: Poovazhagi V, Devasena N (2014) Neiserria Meningitis Due to W135 Strain from South India. J Infect Dis Ther 2:165. doi: 10.4172/2332-0877.1000165 | ||
| Copyright: © 2014, Poovazhagi V et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. | ||
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Abstract
Acute bacterial meningitis due to Neiserria is uncommonly encountered in children. The reported mortality in invasive meningococcal meningitis is between 10- 15% with a disability rate of 11-19%. Reported cases are due to sero type A and rare reports of sero group B. Meningococcal disease is known to present with a stormy onset and rapid progression with mortality in children. We report two children with Neiserria meningitis due to the uncommon W 135 strain from Chennai, and they presented with relatively mild illness and recovered completely without any sequelae.
