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the symptoms of meningitis.
Therefore, the bacterium must first traverse the endothelial cell barrier to cause meningitis.
Presentations compatible with 'meningitis' are more typical of late-onset infection, although some early-onset cases will present primarily with neurological symptoms.
Multiple cranial nerve involvement may be associated with basal meningeal involvement as seen in carcinomatous meningitis and sarcoidosis.
In all, 43 isolates recovered from 43 patients with meningococcal disease (meningitis and/or bacteraemia) were preserved for further study.
About 25 children had severe symptoms, with four being admitted to local hospitals for meningitis.
Frequencies of symptoms and signs in patients with aseptic meningitis were different in patients younger or older than 1 year of age.
This might be considered surprising since septicaemia is often a less discrete diagnosis than meningitis.
One of the previous publications (7), however, studied children with meningitis only.
