Diphtheria in South Weymouth

An isolated outbreak of diphtheria in South Africa, 2015 - Erratum.

KwaZulu-Natal Department of Health, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa 3 National Institute for Communicable Diseases, National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa 4 National Health Laboratory Service, Durban, South Africa 5 eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality Health Unit, Durban, South Africa 6 School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa 7...

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...

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...