Meningococcal infection

Acute infectious disease with air-dropleted transmission, in which various forms of the infectious process develop - from sufficiently innocuous carriage to a generalized infection with a high percentage of mortality, a meningococcal infection is called.
The causative agent of this infection is Neisseria Meningitidis bacterium. Most often, on the territory of the Russian Federation, the following serogroups of this type of bacterium can be distinguished: A, B, C, W-135, Y. Bacterium is unstable in environmental conditions, sensitive to boiling, freezing, disinfectant.
You can get infected only from a person - a patient or carrier of this bacterium. Incubation period from 2 to 10 days. The person is infected during the production period (4-6 days from the date of the appearance of the first symptoms) and 24 hours from the beginning of treatment.
Meningococcal infection can flow in different forms: carriage, noodopaling, meningitis, meningoencephalitis, generalized infection - menincochamia (the most dangerous form).
For nucleargitis, a small temperature, nasal congestion, may be an allocation, sore throat. Increases patient for 2 weeks. Meningitis is manifested by common infectilation symptoms - fever, chills, weakness, malaise; general-selling symptoms - headache, vomiting, convulsions ,; Meningheal symptoms, lights,
Meningochemia is most difficult, it begins very sharply from fever, a hemorrhagic rash of irregular shape appears in a few hours, most often in the field of buttocks, the legs, the rear surface of the hips, develops severe inxication with the lesion of the heart, vessels, liver, kidneys. In case of inconspilely started treatment in 50-60% of cases, death is possible.
The diagnosis is determined on the basis of complaints, inspection, laboratory and instrumental research.
Treating meningococcum hormones, antibiotics, antipyretic drugs and other symptomatic therapy. Naphorgitis and meningitis are treated with antibiotics. To prevent the development of severe forms of the disease, there are various vaccines against meningococcus, which are recommended to make children, older people, people who are subject to calls for military service. Immunity After vaccination, one type of vaccine (polysaccharide) is kept for about 2 years, another type of (conjugated) is saved about 10 years. Awesome brokers for margin crypto trading here cryptobrokers.top