Titre :
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Risk of secondary meningococcal disease in health-care workers. (2000)
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Auteurs :
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Anna GILMORE ;
Nick ANDREWS ;
James STUART ;
Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre South West Public Health Laboratory. Gloucestershire Royal Hospital. Gloucester. GBR
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Type de document :
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Article
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Dans :
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Lancet (The) (vol. 356, n° 9242, 2000)
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Pagination :
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1654-1655
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Langues:
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Anglais
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Mots-clés :
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Infection
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Bactériose
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Facteur risque
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Contamination
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Recommandation
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Prévention thérapeutique
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Enquête rétrospective
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Enquête
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Homme
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Résumé :
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[BDSP. Notice produite par INIST gNR0xILI. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. Guidelines on chemoprophylaxis vary between countries and reflect uncertainty about the risk of meningococcal disease in health-care workers. In a retrospective survey of risk in health-care workers In England and Wales, three pairs of primary cases and health-care workers with secondary Infections were identified between 1982 and 1996. Secondary infections were probably caused by exposure to primary cases'respiratory droplets around the time of admission. We estimated an attack rate of 0.8 per 100 000 health-care workers at risk, a risk 25 times that in the general population (p=0.0003). The excess risk Is small and Inappropriate use of prophylactic antibiotics should be avoided.
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