An experiment in the prevention of meningococcal meningitis in Nigeria
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- 1 January 1962
- journal article
- research article
- Published by BMJ in Journal of Clinical Pathology
- Vol. 15 (1) , 50-53
- https://doi.org/10.1136/jcp.15.1.50
Abstract
In a population of approximately 100,000, 99% of the population was treated with at least one dose of sulphadimidine snuff and 94% with three or four doses over a period of two days. A dramatic reduction in the incidence of cerebrospinal meningitis followed immediately thereafter in the treated population, while the incidence continued to rise in adjacent comparable districts which had not been treated.Keywords
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