[Infection risk in meningococcal infection (the effect of the duration and closeness of the contact in transmission of the Meningococcus].
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).
D002353:Carrier State / Q000175:diagnosis; D002648:Child; D002656:Child Day Care Centers; D004197:Disease Reservoirs; D004812:Epidemiologic Methods; D006801:Humans; D008589:Meningococcal Infections / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000635:transmission*; D009031:Moscow; D009304:Nasopharyngitis / Q000175:diagnosis; D009345:Neisseria meningitidis / Q000472:pathogenicity*; D011336:Probability; D012306:Risk; D013997:Time Factors
O riske zarazhenii pri meningokokkovoĭ infektsii (vliianie dlitel'nosti i blizosti obshcheniia na peredachu meningokokka)