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Symptomatic Female Genital Tract Infections Due to Neisseria meningitidis in Athens, Greece.
Tsakalos, Anastasios; Xirogianni, Athanasia; Ekonomou, Georgia; Papandreou, Anastasia; Prokopiou, Efstratios; Vagiakou, Eleni; Tzanakaki, Georgina.
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  • Tsakalos A; Microbiology Department, "Georgios Gennimatas" General Hospital of Athens, 11527 Athens, Greece.
  • Xirogianni A; National Meningitis Reference Laboratory, Department of Public Health Policy, School of Public Health, University of West Attica, 11521 Athens, Greece.
  • Ekonomou G; Gynecology Department, "Georgios Gennimatas" General Hospital of Athens, 11527 Athens, Greece.
  • Papandreou A; National Meningitis Reference Laboratory, Department of Public Health Policy, School of Public Health, University of West Attica, 11521 Athens, Greece.
  • Prokopiou E; Gynecology Department, "Georgios Gennimatas" General Hospital of Athens, 11527 Athens, Greece.
  • Vagiakou E; Microbiology Department, "Georgios Gennimatas" General Hospital of Athens, 11527 Athens, Greece.
  • Tzanakaki G; National Meningitis Reference Laboratory, Department of Public Health Policy, School of Public Health, University of West Attica, 11521 Athens, Greece.
Diagnostics (Basel) ; 11(7)2021 Jul 14.
Article en En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-34359348
Neisseria meningitidis is considered as an obligate human pathogen and can cause life-threatening diseases like meningitis and/or septicaemia. Occasionally, it can be recovered from infections outside the bloodstream or central nervous system, like respiratory, ocular, joint, urogenital or other unusual sites. Herein, we present two rare cases of female genital infections due to N. meningitidis within a two-year period (2019-2020), identified as serogroup B (MenB) and Y (MenY), respectively. Genotypic analysis for PorA, FetA and MLST revealed the following characteristics: MenB: 7-12, 14, F5-36, 1572cc and MenY: 5-1,10-1, F4-5, 23cc, respectively. Such unusual presentations should alert the clinicians and microbiologists not to exclude N. meningitidis from routine diagnosis and the need of early detection. This is the first report in Greece, and, to our knowledge, in Europe since 2005 describing meningococcal female genital infections.
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Texto completo: 1 Colección: 01-internacional Base de datos: MEDLINE Tipo de estudio: Diagnostic_studies / Prognostic_studies / Screening_studies Idioma: En Revista: Diagnostics (Basel) Año: 2021 Tipo del documento: Article País de afiliación: Grecia Pais de publicación: Suiza
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Texto completo: 1 Colección: 01-internacional Base de datos: MEDLINE Tipo de estudio: Diagnostic_studies / Prognostic_studies / Screening_studies Idioma: En Revista: Diagnostics (Basel) Año: 2021 Tipo del documento: Article País de afiliación: Grecia Pais de publicación: Suiza