Are we able to prevent invasive meningococcal disease in Brazil?

Are We Able to Distinguish Color Attributes?

The perception and understanding of the three color attributes have been analyzed from two experiments using pairs of Munsell samples, where only one of the three color attributes were changed/unchanged (Experiment I/II) at a time. In each experiment, 36 pairs with color differences of 3 different sizes (average values of 15.8 and 21.7 CIELAB units for Experiments I and II, respectively) were a...

Invasive meningococcal disease in childhood.

Need for Optimisation of Immunisation Strategies Targeting Invasive Meningococcal Disease in the Netherlands

Invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) is a severe bacterial infectious disease with high mortality and morbidity rates worldwide. In recent years, industrialised countries have implemented vaccines targeting IMD in their National Immunisation Programmes (NIPs). In 2002, the Netherlands successfully implemented a single dose of meningococcal serogroup C conjugate vaccine at the age of 14 months a...

Surveillance of Invasive Meningococcal Disease

Invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) is a nationally reportable disease in Canada. Since 1985, the Laboratory Centre for Disease Control (LCDC) has enhanced IMD surveillance to correlate case-by-case information provided by the provinces and territories with detailed laboratory studies done at the National Laboratory for Bacteriology at LCDC. This report provides information on IMD from 1 Janua...

FMF in heterozygotes: are we able to accurately diagnose the disease in very young children?

Results Presenting signs in heterozygous children did not differ from homozygous or compound heterozygous patients. Initial response to colchicine was identical in the two groups. During follow-up heterozygous patients were more likely to have a milder course of the disease. After puberty clinical signs of FMF totally disappeared in 6/11 heterozygous patients. In these 6 patients, colchicine co...