Recurrent meningococcal meningitis : a case report

dc.contributor.author	Hardcastle, S. W.	en_ZA
dc.date.accessioned	2011-03-18T14:57:37Z
dc.date.available	2011-03-18T14:57:37Z
dc.date.issued	1984
dc.description	CITATION: Hardcastle, S. W. 1984. Recurrent meningococcal meningitis : a case report. South African Medical Journal, 66:345-346.
dc.description	The original publication is available at http://www.samj.org.za
dc.description.abstract	A 17-year-old Coloured youth presented at Tygerberg Hospital on six occasions between 1978 and 1981. He was admitted three times for meningococcal meningitis and three times for a meningitic illness clinically suggestive thereof. He had been admitted twice before to the City Hospital, Cape Town, in 1966 and 1968, for presumed meningococcal meningitis. He was fully evaluated in the outpatient department and found to have no detectable total haemolytic complement activity. There was no evidence of classic or alternative pathway activation. He has been tentatively designated as having a deficiency in the C6 or C8 components of the terminal membrane attack mechanism of the complement cascade.
dc.description.version	Publisher’s version
dc.identifier.issn	2078-5135 (online)
dc.identifier.issn	0256-9574 (print)
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/7543
dc.language.iso	en
dc.publisher	Health & Medical Publishing Group
dc.rights.holder	South African Medical Journal
dc.subject	Meningitis	en_ZA
dc.title	Recurrent meningococcal meningitis : a case report	en_ZA
dc.type	Article

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