Public health management of invasive meningococcal disease in Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany, 2012: adherence to guidance and estimation of resources required as determined in a survey of local health authorities

Table 1 Invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) contacts to whom local health authority (LHA) would recommend antibiotic post-exposure chemoprophylaxis (PEP)

Contact category		No. LHAs that advised PEP	Total	%
Household	All household members	34	34	100
Kindergarten/preschool	All children in the facility	10	34	29
	Only the group of index case	23	33	70
	Teacher of the index case	31	32	97
School	Only pupils sitting in neighbouring seat	17	32	53
	Class of the index case	15	32	47
	Teacher of the index case	17	32	53
Students’ residence or similar (e.g. barracks, hotels)	All residents	1	34	3
	Only residents on the same floor	13	34	38
	Only residents in the same room	20	34	59
Travellers*	Contact with oropharyngeal secretions of index case	33	33	100
	Sitting in proximity to index case	31	32	97
	Contact longer than a specified time**	9	30	30
Healthcare workers	Any contact with index case	11	34	32
Healthcare workers	Only if contact with oropharyngeal secretions of index case	22	34	65

Survey of 34 Local Health Authorities (LHA), Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany, 2013.
*Travellers = person travelled in the same airplane, train or bus as the index case.
**Time interval specified between one and eight hours.

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