114 Patients with meningococcal infection were studied; 72 had group C infection and 42 group A infection. Fourteen patients had acute meningococcaemia, all of whom had group C infection and 9 of whom died. Clinical and laboratory findings were similar in patients with meningitis due to group A and C organisms, but arthritis and cutaneous vasculitis were more common in patients with group C infection. The overall mortality was 22% in patients with group C infection, and 12% in patients with group A infection, but was the same in both groups when cases of acute meningococcaemia are excluded.
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Evans-Jones, L. G., Whittle, H. C., Onyewotu, I. I., Egler, L. J., & Greenwood, B. M. (1977). Comparative study of group A and group C meningococcal infection. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 52(4), 320–323. https://doi.org/10.1136/adc.52.4.320
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