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Meningococcal infections can present in diverse clinical forms ranging from fulminant, occult, chronic meningococcaemia to meningitis. Rare presentations may include conjunctivitis, sinusitis, pneumonia, pericarditis, arthritis, and osteomyelitis(1). We present a very unusual case of meningococcaemia presented as an endophthalmitis.
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Abousaesha, F., Dogar, G.F., Young, B.J. et al. Endophthalmitis as a presentation of meningococcal septicaemia. I.J.M.S. 162, 495–496 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03022580
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