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Meningococcal lesions on the back
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Meningococcemia

Alternative names:

meningococcal septicemia

Symptoms:

Symptoms may be very few at first:

  • fever
  • petechial rash
  • irritability
  • anxious appearing

Later symptoms and signs

  • appears acutely ill
  • changing level of consciousness
  • shock
  • large areas of hemorrhage and/or thrombosis under the skin

Signs and tests:


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