file.newsgroup.med.58148 Maven / Gradle / Ivy
From: [email protected] (Elizabeth Walkup)
Subject: Re: Menangitis question
In article <[email protected]> [email protected] (Gordon Banks) writes:
>... the neiseria meningococcus is one of the most common
>forms of meningitis. It's the one that sometimes sweeps
>schools or boot camp. It is contagious and kills by attacking
>the covering of the brain, causing the blood vessels to thrombose
>and the brain to swell up.
>
> ...
>
>It can live in the throat of carriers. Don't worry, you won't get
>it from them, especially if they took the medication.
Assuming one has been cultured as having a throat laden with
neiseria meningococcus and given (and taken) a course of ERYC
without the culture becoming negative, should one worry about
being a carrier?
-- Elizabeth
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