During the fall of 1964, six cases of meningococcal infections occurred in Barrow, Alaska. Group B meningococci were isolated from blood cultures in five of the six cases. The recent emergence of Group B strains of meningococcus as an epidemic rather than a sporadic type has been complicated by a definite shift toward sulfadiazine resistance in this group. The major problem thereby created is the lack of an effective prophylactic agent that can eliminate the organism from carriers. This development of sulfadiazine-resistant meningococci has become a nationwide problem, and it is therefore appropriate to summarize some of the clinical and epidemiologic features of the Barrow epidemic, which have been reported in detail elsewhere.
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From: Fortuine, Robert et al. 1993. The Health of the Inuit of North America: A Bibliography from the Earliest Times through 1990. University of Alaska Anchorage. Citation number 1882.
Cited in: Fortuine, Robert. 1968. The Health of the Eskimos: a bibliography 1857-1967. Dartmouth College Libraries. Citation number 714.