Meningococcemia without meningitis in an inmunocompetent young adult, case report

Abstract

The infection caused by Neisseria meningitidis is responsible of a big proportion of meningitis cases and sepsis in children and young adults around the world. The most frequent clinical features of meningococcal disease are meningitis and meningococcemia, although this last one is not the most frequent. The meningococcemia without meningitis presents in 1 of each 5 people who had the infection, and it reports mortality rates about 5% to 20%. We present a case of meningococcemia without meningitis associated to intravascular disseminated coagulation with successful recovery and without different sequelaes as described on literature.

Keywords

• Infecciones meningocóccicas
• Neisseria meningitidis
• Meningitis
• Sepsis
• Coagulación intravascular diseminada.