[The study of carrier of Neisseria meningitidis performed in Zielonec and characteristics of meningogocci isolated from patients at the Wołomin hospital, Warsaw district]

Przegl Epidemiol. 1998;52(3):237-44.
[Article in Polish]

Abstract

Meningococcal carriage study, performed after N. meningitidis outbreak in Zielonka included 130 persons (111 children). No N. meningitidis strain was isolated. Phenotype and genotype analysis of 6 meningococcal isolates obtained from blood and CSF, showed their heterogeneity with exception of 2 isolates from Zielonka's cases of meningococcal sepsis which were identical.

Publication types

  • English Abstract
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Anti-Bacterial Agents / therapeutic use
  • Child
  • Child, Preschool
  • Female
  • Hospitalization
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Meningitis, Bacterial / diagnosis
  • Meningitis, Bacterial / drug therapy
  • Meningitis, Bacterial / epidemiology*
  • Neisseriaceae Infections / diagnosis
  • Neisseriaceae Infections / drug therapy
  • Neisseriaceae Infections / epidemiology*
  • Poland / epidemiology

Substances

  • Anti-Bacterial Agents