Abstract
This article deals with three case reports related to diseases caused by the gram-negative aerobic diplococcus Neisseria meningitidis. The first case report deals with a 28-year-old young man and presents a typical course of meningococcal sepsis with meningitis in an adult.
The second case report deals with a case of meningococcal disease in 13-month-old girl. The lates case report deals with 26-year-old young man, a truck driver by profession, who was admitted to the Infectious Diseases Clinic for febrile condition with bleeding symptoms on the skin.
In the end, it was surprisingly found out that it was not Neisseria meningitidis but Neisseria gonorhoeae. The present case studies therefore describe two typical invasive meningococcal disease course - one for children and the other for adults.
The third case report deals with an atypical course of the invasive course of the disease by the pathogen Neisseria gonorhoeae, wich with its clinical course imitated menigococcal sepsis.