10. Diphtheria in London

Diphtheria

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Diphtheria

OPTIMIZATION OF DIPHTHERIA TOXOID PRECIPITATION BY USING SATURATED AMMONIUM SULPHATE IN ORDER TO IMPROVE DIPHTHERIA VACCINE

سابقه و هدف: کورینه باکتریوم دیفتریه باکتری هوازی و بی­هوازی اختیاری است. مهم­ترین گونه از خانواده کورینه ‌باکتریاها، عامل بیماری دیفتری است که به ­وسیله توکسین خود، بیماری دیفتری را ایجاد می­کند. آمونیم ­سولفات نمکی معدنی است که از آن برای ترسیب و خالص­سازی پروتئین ها استفاده می­شود که با افزایش مقدار نمک حلالیت پروتئینی کم شده و پروتئین ­ها به­ واسطه قطعه­ های هیدروفوب خود، به­هم پیوسته و رسو...

Cutaneous diphtheria in the urban poor population of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada: a 10-year review.

Between 1998 and 2007, records from 33 patients with cutaneous diphtheria from Vancouver's inner city were reviewed. Cases were associated with injection drug use and poverty. Coinfections with Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus pyogenes, and Arcanobacterium haemolyticum occurred. Corynebacterium diphtheriae is endemic in Vancouver's urban core, with strains of multilocus sequence type (MLST)...

Diphtheria in an Institution

For several years we have had frequent small outbreaks of diphtheria. In *924, there were fifteen apparently separate outbreaks with a total of twenty eases, and in the early part of 1925, there were at different times six patients <ind eleven members of the staff down with mild attacks of the same thing. Of the whole thirty-seven cases, only two were serious, but it was obvious that at any tim...