Not Only Meningitis but Also Epiglottitis: An Emerging Clinical Presentation of Invasive Meningococcal Disease

Ala-Eddine Deghmane; Samy Taha; Muhamed-Kheir Taha

doi:10.1093/ofid/ofad615

Not Only Meningitis but Also Epiglottitis: An Emerging Clinical Presentation of Invasive Meningococcal Disease

Open Forum Infect Dis. 2023 Dec 8;11(1):ofad615. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofad615. eCollection 2024 Jan.

Authors

Ala-Eddine Deghmane¹, Samy Taha¹, Muhamed-Kheir Taha¹

Affiliation

¹ Institut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, Invasive Bacterial Infections Unit and National Reference Centre for Meningococci and Haemophilus influnezae, Paris cedex 15, France.

Abstract

The rebound of invasive meningococcal disease cases in France since the fall of 2022 was accompanied by an increase in adult epiglottitis. These cases were provoked mainly by isolates of serogroup W belonging to the clonal complex 11 of Neisseria meningitidis. Awareness and surveillance should be reinforced.

Keywords: epiglottitis; invasive meningococcal disease; serogroup W.