Adults: Routine practices
Pediatric and adults who have poor cough etiquette or hygeine: Contact precautions
Small gram negative bacillus.
Normal respiratory flora.
Invasive disease sharply declined after Hib conjugate vaccine widely used.
Most invasive disease is now caused by non-typable strains.
Colonizer of the upper respiratory tract however can cause invasive disease including:
Meningitis
Pneumonia/empyema
Bacteremia
Epiglottitis
Orbital cellulitis