Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Case 19-2007 - a 19-year-old college student with fever and joint pain

N Engl J Med. 2007 Jun 21;356(25):2631-7. doi: 10.1056/NEJMcpc079013.

Authors

Benjamin T Davis¹, Mark S Pasternack

Affiliation

¹ Division of Infectious Diseases, Massachusetts General Hospital, USA.

PMID: 17582074
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcpc079013

No abstract available

Publication types

Case Reports
Clinical Conference

MeSH terms

Adult
Arthralgia / etiology
Arthritis, Infectious / complications
Arthritis, Infectious / diagnosis*
Arthritis, Infectious / microbiology
Bacterial Capsules
Diagnosis, Differential
Female
Fever / etiology
Gonorrhea / diagnosis
Humans
Hypotension / etiology
Infectious Mononucleosis / complications*
Infectious Mononucleosis / diagnosis
Meningococcal Infections / complications
Meningococcal Infections / diagnosis*
Meningococcal Vaccines / immunology
Neisseria meningitidis / classification
Neisseria meningitidis / isolation & purification*
Polysaccharides, Bacterial
Serotyping

Substances

Meningococcal Vaccines
Polysaccharides, Bacterial
capsular polysaccharide, meningococcal group B