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Severe tetanus--in spite of tetanus toxoid.
A 66-year-old man sustained an injury to his right foot while gardening. Despite receiving tetanus toxoid one hour later and adequate wound toilet, he developed severe tetanus complicated with autonomic dysfunction six days later. He died 20 days after admission. This case shows that tetanus toxoid alone may not be sufficient to prevent tetanus in wounded patients. Careful consideration must be...
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Although immunization with tetanus toxoid cannot be expected to produce an adequate permanent immunity, a number of investigators have confirmed and extended the observation of Ramon3 to the effect that an organism, once immunized, will respond to further injections of toxoid with an accelerated and increased antitoxin production. That this response to the "injection de rappel" does occur has b...
متن کاملImmunological studies on tetanus toxoid
T toxoid is one of the most successful vaccines used in immunization programme almost all over the world. Neonatal tetanus can be prevented by immunizing women of childbearing age with tetanus toxoid, either during pregnancy or outside of pregnancy. Tetanus vaccine is used either in mono or in combination with other antigens i.e. Diphtheria, Pertussis (whole cell or acellular), Hepatitis B, Hae...
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OBJECTIVE To study the human teratogenic potential of tetanus vaccination during pregnancy. METHODS Pair analysis of cases with congenital abnormalities and matched healthy controls was performed in the large population-based dataset of the Hungarian Case-Control Surveillance of Congenital Abnormalities, 1980-1994. RESULTS Of 35 727 pregnant women who had babies without any defects in the s...
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When an individual has been given one or more injections of tetanus toxoid and, at a later date, is injured and possibly infected with Clostridium tetani, what further precautions should be taken: (1) Administer antitoxin? (2) Give another injection of tetanus toxoid to accelerate the production of antitoxin? (3) Give no further treatment, depending on his present immunity to take care of the i...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Biochemical Journal
سال: 1942
ISSN: 0306-3283
DOI: 10.1042/bj0360544