Infection risk in meningococcal infection (the effect of the duration and closeness of the contact in transmission of the Meningococcus

Favorova, L.A.; Kniazeva, G.P.

Zhurnal Mikrobiologii Epidemiologii i Immunobiologii 8: 20-25

1975


ISSN/ISBN: 0372-9311
PMID: 812305
Document Number: 88984
The authors present experimental-epidemiological data permitting to give an objective quantitative characteristics of the hazard of infection in meningococcus infection (including the carrier state and nasopharyngitis). In 70% of cases meningococcus infection occurred at a distance of less than 0.5 meters. With increase of the distance and reduction of the time of contact the risk of meningococcus infection in a collective body falls to the zero (no such phenomenon is observed in other droplet infections).

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