Risk factors for death from meningococcal infection in Recife, Brazil

Duarte, M. C. M. B., Amorim, M. R., Cuevas, Luis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6581-0587, Cabral, J. E. and Correia, J. B. (2005) 'Risk factors for death from meningococcal infection in Recife, Brazil'. Journal of Tropical Pediatrics, Vol 51, Issue 4, pp. 227-231.

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Abstract

To determine the case fatality rate and risk factors for death in children with invasive meningococcal infection, 163 children admitted with meningococcal disease to the Instituto Materno Infantil de Pernambuco, a tertiary paediatric teaching hospital in Recife, Brazil, were included in this retrospective cohort study. Cases were categorised as meningitis, septicaemia and septicaemia with meningitis. Forty-six (28.2 per cent) children had meningitis alone, 88 (54 per cent) septicaemia and meningitis and 29 (17.8 per cent) only septicaemia. Four of the patients with meningitis died (8.7 per cent), compared to 31 out of the 88 (35.2 per cent) with septicaemia and meningitis and 18 of the 29 (62.1 per cent) with septicaemia alone (p < 0.001). Symptoms < 24 h (AOR 3.8, 95 per cent CI 1.1-13.1), platelet count < 100 000 mm(3) (AOR 13.8, 95 per cent CI 3.1-60.9) and acidosis (AOR 6.0, 95 per cent CI 1.7-21) were the significant risk factors for death. Invasive meningococcal infection has a high case-fatality rate in this tertiary centre in Recife, especially in the septic forms. The identification of risk factors for death could contribute to the early recognition of patients with higher risk on admission in a middle-income country population.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	case-fatality rate prognostic score disease children management septicemia pathophysiology prevention care
Subjects:	WA Public Health > Preventive Medicine > WA 110 Prevention and control of communicable diseases. Transmission of infectious diseases WC Communicable Diseases > Infection. Bacterial Infections > Bacterial Infections > WC 240 Bacteremia. Sepsis. Toxemias WC Communicable Diseases > Infection. Bacterial Infections > Bacterial Infections > WC 245 Meningococcal infections WS Pediatrics > Diseases of Children and Adolescents > General Diseases > WS 200 General works
Faculty: Department:	Groups (2002 - 2012) > Child & Reproductive Health Group
Digital Object Identifer (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1093/tropej/fmi006
Depositing User:	Martin Chapman
Date Deposited:	11 Oct 2011 14:33
Last Modified:	06 Feb 2018 13:03
URI:	https://archive.lstmed.ac.uk/id/eprint/1927

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