Emerging Infectious Diseases (Jun 2005)

Rifampin-resistant Meningococcal Disease

  • Jean Rainbow,
  • Elizabeth Cebelinski,
  • Joanne Bartkus,
  • Anita Glennen,
  • Dave Boxrud,
  • Ruth Lynfield

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1106.050143
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 6
pp. 977 – 979

Abstract

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Rifampin-resistant meningococcal disease occurred in a child who had completed rifampin chemoprophylaxis for exposure to a sibling with meningococcemia. Susceptibility testing of 331 case isolates found only 1 other case of rifampin-resistant disease in Minnesota, USA, during 11 years of statewide surveillance. Point mutations in the RNA polymerase β subunit (rpoB) gene were found in isolates from each rifampin-resistant case-patient.

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