Clinical factors associated with septic shock in pediatric invasive meningococcal disease: a retrospective study from two tertiary hospitals in Chile, 2009–2025
Invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) remains a primary etiology of bacterial meningitis and a cause of long-term neurological sequelae in children. We aimed to describe characteristics of IMD and to identify variables associated with adverse outcomes, defined as septic shock. A retrospective cohort study i...