In the recent Health and Drug Alert on the risk of meningitis for cochlear implant recipients,1 the type of H. influenzae in the third Canadian case (in a 12-year-old child who subsequently died) was incorrectly listed as type b when in fact it was type f.
Reference
- 1.Wooltorton E. Cochlear implant recipients at risk for meningitis. CMAJ 2002;167(6):670. [PMC free article] [PubMed]
