title: [Abdominal acute pain as initial symptom of invasive meningococcus serogroup A illness].
abstract: The abdominal acute pain as an initial symptom of meningococcemia is an infrequent entity rarely described in the literature. We present a 10 month-old infant with fever and acute abdominal pain, who was admitted in Emergency Care. Later, Neisseria meningitidis serogroup A was isolated from blood cultures.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Pediatría, Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, Madrid. debora_sanz@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Débora
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Sanz Álvarez
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Blázquez Gamero
authors.forename: Jesús
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ruiz Contreras
mesh_terms: D015746:Abdominal Pain / Q000209:etiology; D000208:Acute Disease; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D008589:Meningococcal Infections / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D038381:Neisseria meningitidis, Serogroup A