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While many antibiotics temporarily suppress nasopharyngeal colonization by Haemophilus influenzae type b, only rifampin is effective in eradicating the organism. It should therefore be administered to all attendees and staff of a day-care facility in which two or more children have been diagnosed with disease caused byH. influenzae , type b, regardless of the recipients’ previous immunization status. The patients should also receive rifampin before returning to the center. Prophylaxis after a single case is controversial.
Ref: Pickering LK (ed): 2000 Red Book: Report of the Committee on Infectious Diseases, ed 25. American Academy of Pediatrics, 2000, pp 264-266. (ABFM, 2002)
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