title: Complications of meningococcal disease in college students.
abstract: A retrospective study was conducted to provide a description of the risk, complications, fatality, and sequelae associated with invasive meningococcal disease in college students admitted in the Allegheny county (Pennsylvania) hospital system from January 1990 to May 1999.
authors.affiliation: Regional Health Board of Montérégie, University of Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada.
authors.forename: L J
authors.initials: LJ
authors.lastname: Erickson
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: De Wals
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: McMahon
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Heim
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000671:Amputation, Surgical / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008589:Meningococcal Infections / Q000150:complications* / Q000401:mortality; D009336:Necrosis; D009345:Neisseria meningitidis / Q000302:isolation & purification; D010414:Pennsylvania / Q000453:epidemiology; D011788:Quality of Life / Q000523:psychology; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012307:Risk Factors; D012703:Serotyping; D013334:Students / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*