![]() ![]() Primary meningococcal pneumonia occurs in 5–10% of patients with meningococcal infection and is indistinguishable clinically from pneumonia caused by other common pathogens. military recruits and students at university), preceding viral and bacterial infections, haematological malignancies, chronic respiratory conditions and various other non-communicable and primary and secondary immunodeficiency diseases. Risk factors for meningococcal pneumonia have not been well characterised, but appear to include older age, smoking, people living in close contact (e.g. Meningococcal pneumonia occurs mainly with serogroups Y, W-135 and B. ![]() A number of publications, mainly case series or case reports, has subsequently appeared in the literature. Meningococcal pneumonia was first described in 1907 and during the 1918–1919 influenza pandemic large numbers of cases of meningococcal pneumonia occurred in patients following the initial viral infection. ![]() We conducted a review of the literature to describe the risk factors, pathogenesis, clinical features, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of meningococcal pneumonia. Although Neisseria meningitidis is one of the major causes of meningitis, meningococcal pneumonia is the most common non-neurological organ disease caused by this pathogen. ![]()
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