Background: Tetanus caused by clostridium tetani, despite being a preventable disease, is still posing significant health hazard to developing countries like Pakistan. Objective: To determine in-hospital mortality among patients of severe adult tetanus presenting with bad prognostic factors.Material and Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted at the Department Medicine, Medical Teachi...

1. The only reliable method that can be used for the detection of tetanus bacilli is the culturing of the suspected material, the isolation of tetanus-like organisms and the demonstration that the pure cultures form a spasm-producing toxin that is neutralized by tetanus antitoxin. 2. Using this method we have demonstrated tetanus bacilli in 34.7 per cent of stools from 78 individuals in Peking....

Tetanus immune globulin (TIG) continues to be recommended in persons with tetanus-prone wounds who have incomplete or unknown tetanus immunization status. The aim of this study was to determine whether, following a booster dose of tetanus toxoid in adults who had not been immunized in the previous 10 years, there was an antitoxin response to tetanus toxoid booster within 4 days. Thirty-one adul...

Abstract Background A toxin produced by Clostridium tetani causes an acute illness called tetanus. Although there are still isolated incidences of the disease in emerging nations with social and economic squalor, number cases has dropped as a result vaccination. This case report intends to describe physical therapy treatments given two patients at Federal Medical Center Abeokuta who were diagno...

Introduction: Tetanus is a major health problem in developing countries, and associated with high morbidity mortality. There are no recent local data Kenya on the impact of disease terms The objective this study was to describe type, severity, risk factors, immunization history outcome tetanus patients at Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH).
 Method: This retrospective descriptive clinical di...

Tetanus is now so rare in the United States that few physicians encounter a case in the course of their careers. The 96% reduction in the incidence of reported tetanus cases and elimination of neonatal tetanus since the late 1940s can be attributed to the effectiveness of widespread vaccination with tetanus toxoid–containing vaccines, as well as improved wound care and delivery practices.1 Desp...

introduction: based on the existing studies, measuring serum level of immunoglobulin for making decisions regarding prescription of tetanus prophylaxis seems logical and cost effective. therefore, the present study was done with the aim of evaluating the diagnostic accuracy of tetanus quick stick (tqs) in comparison with elisa method in this regard. methods: the present diagnostic accuracy stud...

Effective immunization programs initiated many years ago have made tetanus a rare disease in the United States today. These programs have been so successful that in 1981 the Sixth International Conference on Tetanus (Lyon, France) proposed a goal of eliminating tetanus from the United States by 1985 and from the rest of the world by the year 2000.1 This goal has yet to be achieved. During the l...

BACKGROUND The successful scale-up of safe male circumcision (SMC) in Uganda has been hinged on client's safety and quality of services. However, after the recent three tetanus deaths after circumcision a review of all tetanus cases in one of the hospitals where the cases occurred was initiated. This was to ascertain the potential for an association between tetanus infection and circumcision. R...