ON DIPHTHERIA.

Memoir on Diphtheria

Note on Diphtheria in Peru

mer heat of 80-84? Fahr. as maximum. Atmosphere generally humid, and climate relaxing. Barometer all the year 29\ to 29f, if I recollect well. Malarial and pythogenetic causes are always fertile sources of disease, such as intermittent, remittent, and typhoid fevers ; the sewage gas is often extremely offensive ; and it is by no means uncommon to see the intermittent pass into the declared typh...

Diphtheria

Gentlemen,?I have occasionally heard a man, about to read a paper upon some subject, commence by expressing his sense of his unfitness for the task he has undertaken. I have, I must confess, looked upon this appeal, ad misericordiam, with much suspicion, believing the writer, did he not in his own heart believe himself particularly well-fitted for the work, would not have undertaken it. To-day,...

Diphtheria

Impact of vaccination on epidemiology of diphtheria and pertussis

Whooping cough and diphtheria are vaccine preventable diseases. Diphtheria, due to Corynebacterium diphtheriae or Corynebactium ulcerans, two Gram positive bacteria, is a serious upper respiratory tract disease with high morbidity and mortality rates. Vaccination, via an acellular vaccine composed only of purified, detoxified diphtheria toxin, has significantly reduced the incidence of the dise...