Invasive meningococcal disease with fatal outcome in a Swiss student visiting Berlin
| Autor: | Niels Kleinkauf, I. Zuschneid, A. Witschi, D. Koch, Wiebke Hellenbrand, Gérard Krause, L. Quaback |
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| Rok vydání: | 2008 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
Pediatrics Fatal outcome Epidemiology business.industry Public health medicine.medical_treatment Early disease Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Invasive meningococcal disease Infectious disease (medical specialty) Virology Family medicine medicine National level Post-exposure prophylaxis business Contact tracing |
| Zdroj: | Scopus-Elsevier |
| ISSN: | 1560-7917 |
| DOI: | 10.2807/ese.13.45.19031-en |
| Popis: | Following the fatal invasive meningococcal disease in a Swiss student who had been visiting Berlin, several public health institutions on local, regional and national level cooperated to ensure that the appropriate measures such as contact tracing and post exposure prophylaxis were taken to prevent further cases. The incidence highlighted the importance of early disease notification and showed that if an infectious disease requiring public health action occurs in an international context, it is vital that relevant information is communicated to all levels of the public health systems of the countries involved. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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