Clinical Applications: 10 points (2 points each) Chapter 26 A previously healthy 19-year-old woman was admitted to a hospital af
ter 2 days of nausea, vomiting, headache, and neck stiffness. Cerebrospinal fluid and cervical cultures showed gram-negative diplococci in leukocytes; a blood culture was negative. What disease did she have? How was it probably acquired?
The answer is meningococcal meningitis, which is transmitted more than anything orally.
Explanation:
1-) The disease presented by this patient is a meningococcal meningitis. meningococcal meningitisis a disease that can have a favorable or very serious evolution, even causing death to the patient. It is characterized by fever, headache and stiff neck. Its main diagnosis is made through the culture that will report the presence of gram-negative diplococci, the doctor should be consulted immediately.
2-) It is a disease that is transmitted more than anything orally, such as sneezing, cough drops of saliva.
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