Cardona Rita S B, do Carmo Fabiana Bononi, Beltrão Suenia Vasconcelos, Gouvêa Aída de Fátima T Barbosa, Salomão Reinaldo, Succi Regina Célia de Menezes, Machado Daisy Maria
Pediatric Infectious Disease Clinical Care Center of Federal University of São Paulo, Pedro de Toledo Street 924/928 Vila Clementino, Zip Code 04039-002, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
Adult Infectious Disease Department of Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Rua Napoleão de Barros 715 Vila Clementino, Zip Code 04024-002, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
IDCases. 2020 Apr 21;20:e00764. doi: 10.1016/j.idcr.2020.e00764. eCollection 2020.
Chronic meningococcemia is a rare manifestation of meningococcal disease, characterized by a period of more than one week of intermittent or continuous fever, arthralgia and skin lesions without meningitis. It can occur both in previously healthy and immunocompromised patients. The gold standard for the diagnosis is culture isolation of in sterile material. We describe a case of a vertically HIV-infected adolescent with chronic meningococcal disease.
慢性脑膜炎球菌血症是脑膜炎球菌病的一种罕见表现,其特征为持续一周以上的间歇性或持续性发热、关节痛和皮肤病变,且无脑膜炎症状。它可发生于既往健康的患者和免疫功能低下的患者。诊断的金标准是在无菌材料中进行培养分离。我们描述了一例垂直感染艾滋病毒的青少年患慢性脑膜炎球菌病的病例。