Tetanus trismus in a 2 year old child: Case report [PDF]
, 2014 Tetanus is still a major cause of mortality and morbidity in developing countries. It occurs in children mainly in the unimmunized, due to parental ignorance and objection to vaccination.
Menon Narayanankutty Sunilkumar, Vadakut Krishnan Parvathy
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Tratamento responsivo de um equino com tétano: Relato de caso
Pubvet, 2022 O tétano é uma doença infecciosa não contagiosa, causada por exotoxinas produzidas por Clostridium tetani (C. tetani), um microrganismo de distribuição mundial, gram-positivo, encontrado sob a forma vegetativa ou esporulada.
Edna Santana Chabí +6 more
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A pragmatic harm reduction approach to manage a large outbreak of wound botulism in people who inject drugs, Scotland 2015 [PDF]
, 2018 Background People who inject drugs (PWID) are at an increased risk of wound botulism, a potentially fatal acute paralytic illness. During the first 6 months of 2015, a large outbreak of wound botulism was confirmed among PWID in Scotland, which resulted ...
Amanda Weir +43 more
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Recentes avanços e necessidades de pesquisa em tétano
Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 1978 O autor faz uma análise sobre a bacteriologia do Clostridium tetani, citando trabalhos recentes que evidenciam a termo-sensibilidade e a não-fermentação da glicose como características das cepas toxigências. Esclarece ainda diversos aspectos da patogenia
Walter Tavares
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Some Cultural Reactions Of Clostridium Tetani [PDF]
Journal of Medical Microbiology, 1970 Summary Probably because CI. tetani is a well-defined species whose recognition is rarely difficult, no recent attempts have been made to clarify the present uncertainties about its gelatinolytic and proteolytic activity. In the present study of 71 strains of the organism, all of them were shown to produce gelatinase, and none was proteolytic.
A T, Willis, K, Williams
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Clinical and epidemiological profile of accidental tetanus cases in Ribeirão Preto in the State of São Paulo from 1990 to 2009 [PDF]
, 2011 INTRODUÇÃO: O tétano continua sendo um grave problema de saúde pública nos países em desenvolvimento. No Brasil, apesar dos avanços tecnológicos, não houve um decréscimo significativo da taxa de letalidade nos últimos anos.
FAIOLLA, Rivian Christina Lopes +5 more
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Genome sequencing of multidrug resistant novel Clostridium sp. BL8 reveals its potential for pathogenicity [PDF]
, 2014 BACKGROUND: The human gut microbiome is important for maintaining the health status of the host. Clostridia are key members of the human gut microbiome, carrying out several important functions in the gut environment.
Dilip R Ranade +5 more
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Probing Genomic Aspects of the Multi-Host Pathogen Clostridium perfringens Reveals Significant Pangenome Diversity, and a Diverse Array of Virulence Factors [PDF]
, 2017 Clostridium perfringens is an important cause of animal and human infections, however information about the genetic makeup of this pathogenic bacterium is currently limited.
Lindsay J. Hall +5 more
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Case Report Of Severe Generalized Tetanus In a 18 y/o Patient
Iranian South Medical Journal, 2020 Tetanus is a life-threatening neurologic disease caused by an infectious agent, Clostridium Tetani, and is one of the infectious diseases that is preventable by vaccination. Tetanus is characterized by painful muscle spasm and increased muscle tone, that
Razeah Rastegar, Farhad Abbasi
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