Stomach pain should be seen as a warning sign of meningococcal meningitis
April 27, 2018, Pasteur Institute
Patients with meningococcal infections generally develop symptoms including a high temperature, vomiting and a stiff neck. But they might also just have a bad stomach ache. It can be so severe that they are sometimes wrongly diagnosed with appendicitis. Teams from the Institut Pasteur and the Department of Pediatrics at Bicêtre Hospital (AP-HP) decided to investigate the question. And the results speak for themselves: Ten percent of patients infected by the meningococcal strain currently on the rise in Europe suffer from abdominal pain. This atypical form of the disease is becoming increasingly common and needs to be understood by physicians. The findings are published in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
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