نتایج جستجو برای: neonatal tetanus
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OBJECTIVE To determine the outcome of tetanus in neonates treated with intrathecal tetanus immunoglobulin in terms of mortality and hospital stay. STUDY DESIGN Experimental study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY Paediatric Unit I, Bahawal Victoria Hospital, Bahawalpur, from April 2004 to December 2007. METHODOLOGY Seventy neonates with diagnosis of neonatal tetanus were included in the study....
Background and Objectives: Tetanus is a lethal disease caused by Gram-positive Clostridium tetani bacteria toxin. The annual incidence of this disease in the world is one million people per year [1]. Typical symptoms include trismus, risus sardonicus, and opisthotonos. The main cause of death in the primary phase is laryngeal muscle spasm and in the late phase is dysrhythmia [1]. Case Report: ...
The Maasai have high rates of death from neonatal tetanus, partly due to their custom of packing the umbilical stump with cow dung. We report on the effect of a simple health promotion programme, designed in consultation with the local community and carried out by local women. After introduction of the programme in 1981, neonatal (<6 weeks of age) tetanus rates fell sharply, and by 1988 annual ...
In Vietnam, there are no accurate data on tetanus incidence to allow assessment of disease burden or vaccination program efficacy. We analyzed age structure of 786 tetanus cases admitted to a tertiary referral center in Vietnam for three separate years during an 18-year period to examine the impact of tetanus prevention programs, namely the Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI) and the Materna...
Tetanus and rabies are two potentially preventable diseases that have been eradicated from many countries of the world. They still take a heavy toll of human life in the developing world. According to World Health Organization (WHO) reports, rabies causes at least 55,000 annual deaths worldwide, of which 56% occur in Asia and 44% in Africa1; and the estimated worldwide deaths from tetanus were ...
1Macro International, Calverton, Maryland, United States of America (Correspondence to R. Hong: [email protected]). Department of Global Health, School of Public Health, George Washington University, Washington DC, United States of America. ABSTRACT A study was made of the effects of extra immunization activities on routine immunization coverage at district level in Pakistan in a seco...
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