Chronic meningococcemia in a vertically HIV-infected adolescent

Rita S B Cardona; Fabiana Bononi do Carmo; Suenia Vasconcelos Beltrão; Aída de Fátima T Barbosa Gouvêa; Reinaldo Salomão; Regina Célia de Menezes Succi; Daisy Maria Machado

doi:10.1016/j.idcr.2020.e00764

Chronic meningococcemia in a vertically HIV-infected adolescent

IDCases. 2020 Apr 21:20:e00764. doi: 10.1016/j.idcr.2020.e00764. eCollection 2020.

Authors

Rita S B Cardona¹, Fabiana Bononi do Carmo¹, Suenia Vasconcelos Beltrão¹, Aída de Fátima T Barbosa Gouvêa¹, Reinaldo Salomão², Regina Célia de Menezes Succi¹, Daisy Maria Machado¹

Affiliations

¹ Pediatric Infectious Disease Clinical Care Center of Federal University of São Paulo, Pedro de Toledo Street 924/928 Vila Clementino, Zip Code 04039-002, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
² Adult Infectious Disease Department of Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Rua Napoleão de Barros 715 Vila Clementino, Zip Code 04024-002, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.

Abstract

Chronic meningococcemia is a rare manifestation of meningococcal disease, characterized by a period of more than one week of intermittent or continuous fever, arthralgia and skin lesions without meningitis. It can occur both in previously healthy and immunocompromised patients. The gold standard for the diagnosis is culture isolation of Neisseria meningitidis in sterile material. We describe a case of a vertically HIV-infected adolescent with chronic meningococcal disease.

Keywords: Chronic meningococcemia; HIV infection; Neisseria meningitides.

Publication types

Case Reports