Table 2 Antibiotics recommended by local health authority (LHA) for post-exposure prophylaxis of different categories of invasive meningococcal disease contacts, Survey of 34 LHA, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany, 2013
LHAs recommending antibiotic | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Rifampicin | Ciprofloxacin | Ceftriaxone i.m. | Other [which] | |||||||||
Contact category | n | N | % | n | N | % | n | N | % | n | N | % |
Infants | 28 | 29 | 97 | 1 | 29 | 3 | - | - | - | 1 | 30 | 3 [unspecified] |
Toddlers | 30 | 30 | 100 | 1* | 30 | 3 | 2* | 30 | 7 | - | - | - |
School children (5–11 years) | 30 | 30 | 100 | 5* | 30 | 17 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Adolescents (12–17 years) | 28 | 30 | 93 | 4** | 30 | 13 | 7* | 30 | 23 | - | - | - |
Adults | 16† | 30 | 53 | 27 | 30 | 90 | 3‡ | 30 | 10 | - | - | - |
Pregnant women | 1 | 30 | 3 | 1 | 30 | 3 | 27 | 30 | 90 | 1 | 30‡‡ | 3 [azithromycin] |