From the *Jerusalem District Health Office, Ministry of Health; and †Braun School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University and Hadassah, Jerusalem, Israel.
Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2014 Jul;33(7):777-9. doi: 10.1097/INF.0000000000000282.
We evaluated the outcome of invasive meningococcal disease in children <15 years of age (n = 181). Neisseria meningitidis serogroup B comprised 78% of bacterial isolates. Case fatality rate was 11.6%. In follow-up interviews (115/160 survivors, 72%), at least 1 long-term sequela was reported in 38/115 children (33%), including learning-academic difficulties (22.6%), hearing impairment (7%), neurologic (12.2%), behavioral (14.8%) and motor (10.4%) deficits.
我们评估了 15 岁以下儿童侵袭性脑膜炎奈瑟菌病的结局（n = 181）。脑膜炎奈瑟菌 B 群占细菌分离株的 78%。病死率为 11.6%。在随访访谈中（160 名幸存者中的 115 名，72%），115 名儿童中有 38 名（33%）报告至少存在 1 种长期后遗症，包括学习-学术困难（22.6%）、听力损伤（7%）、神经（12.2%）、行为（14.8%）和运动（10.4%）缺陷。
