MENINGOCOCCAL INFECTION IN CHILDREN IN KIROV REGION

Abstract

56 children aged 1 month to 17 years with generalized meningococcal infection were treated over the period 2004—2009. Antigens of meningococcus group B, C, Y/W 135 were isolated at the patients. The article siscusses clinical and laboratory features of infections caused by different groups of meningococcus.

Keywords

• meningococcal disease
• itsh
• meningitis
• latex agglutination test
• children