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1571624

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PredicateObject
rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
1992-6-4
pubmed:abstractText
In January 1991, in a community near the South German town of Tübingen, an infant and a toddler developed a Haemophilus influenzae type B (HIB) meningitis within a period of one week. The patients had no direct contact with each other, but each of them had a healthy sibling that was older. These siblings attended the same kindergarten and the same group. Five months later we noted the same situation in another community. Two infants fell ill with HIB meningitis at short intervals from each other, and again both patients had no common contacts, but they did have healthy siblings attending the same kindergarten and group. Hence, it must be assumed that the HIB strain circulated among the healthy kindergarten children and was transmitted by these to the patients. In order to prevent that after the two pairs of patients we had observed, further patients would follow among the kindergarten children or their younger siblings, chemoprophylaxis with rifampicin was initiated in all kindergarten children, their younger siblings and the adult Kindergarten staff. The problems arising from these unusual case constellations in respect of mass prophylaxis with rifampicin in cases of Haemophilus influenzae type B meningitis that are merely indirectly linked to each other, are discussed.
pubmed:language
ger
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Mar
pubmed:issn
0941-3790
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
54
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
135-8
pubmed:dateRevised
2008-11-21
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1992
pubmed:articleTitle
[Chemoprophylaxis in indirectly related cases of Haemophilus influenzae meningitis].
pubmed:affiliation
Staatliches Gesundheitsamt Tübingen.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, English Abstract, Case Reports