meningococcal meningitis
bacterial meningitis that has material basis in Neisseria meningitidis infection
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Summary
meningococcal meningitis is a class of disease[1]. It is known by 4 alternative names across languages and contexts.[2]
Key Facts
- Subclass of: bacterial meningitis[3], meningococcal disease[4]
- Prevalence: 0.00005[5]
- ICD-9-CM: 036.0[6]
- Health specialty: infectious diseases[7]
- Age of onset: any age[8]
- Exact match: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/DOID_0080176[9], http://identifiers.org/doid/DOID:0080176[10], http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/DOID_9929[11]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject Medicine[12]
- Risk factor: maternal smoking[13]
- Has phenotype: fever[14], pleocytosis[15], Q141816281[16], photophobia[17], anorexia[18], headache[19], alteration of consciousness[20], sepsis[21], kidney failure[22], deafness[23], irritability[24], purpura[25], papilledema[26], seizure[27]
- P14914: D33475[28]