[Meningococcal arthritis (serogroup A) contracted during a pilgrimage to Mecca]

Pathol Biol (Paris). 1989 Mar;37(3):213-4.
[Article in French]

Abstract

Case report of one meningococcal arthritis (serogroup A) acquired during Mecca pilgrimage (August 1987). It was the first case of an outbreak of twenty infections due to Neisseria meningitidis groupe A reported in France from August 1987 to March 1988.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Arthritis, Infectious / epidemiology*
  • Arthritis, Infectious / microbiology
  • Female
  • France
  • Humans
  • Neisseria meningitidis* / classification
  • Neisseria meningitidis* / isolation & purification
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Serotyping