The undergraduate student hospitalized earlier this month with meningococcal meningitis was released from the hospital this weekend, according to University spokeswoman Phyllis Holtzman.
There are no further cases of meningococcal infection, she added.
Student Health Service posted an update on its Web site about the student's release on Saturday.
The student was hospitalized on March 7, and was in critical condition until last week.
Meningococcal meningitis is a serious infection of the central nervous system that manifests itself in symptoms like fever, stiff neck, severe headache and nausea.
The student was infected with strain B, according to Holtzman. Strain B - one of the five strains of meningococcal infection - is the only strain for which there is no known vaccine.
The meningococcal vaccine protects against the other four strains, known as A, C, Y, and W-153.
Strain B is also the strain contracted by the three other students who were hospitalized with meningococcal infection between Feb. 12 and 13.
Despite this similarity, SHS director Evelyn Wiener said earlier this month that the most recent case is unrelated to the three previous cases.
In addition to the three confirmed cases of meningococcal infection last month, two students were hospitalized with flu-like symptoms on Feb. 15. They were never confirmed to have the infection.
These hospitalized students each had contact through the Greek system, University officials said at the time of the outbreak.
As a result, SHS preventively treated over 3,000 students with the antibiotic Ciprofloxacin. In this case, however, the student had no connections to the Greek community, and University and City officials did not believe widespread distribution of antibiotics was necessary.
Then-College sophomore Anne Ryan died of meningitis in 2007. Her family sued the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, alleging she was initially misdiagnosed, and the case is still pending.
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