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A Case of Diphtheria

Sri Lankan Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2011
Diphtheria is a nearly eradicated disease in Sri Lanka. After introduction of EPI vaccination program in 1978 childhood diphtheria has been eradicated.
Rohitha Jayamaha
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Replacement, Reduction and Refinement of Animal Testing in the Quality Control of Human Vaccines [PDF]

, 2015
Vaccines are recognised as a highly cost effective tool for preventing infectious diseases. They are derived from biological sources and due to the complexity of composition and heterogeneity of products, vaccine lots undergo legally required quality ...
HALDER MARIA ELISABETH
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Computational design of novel diphtheria toxin inhibitors using natural products-based drug discovery

The Microbe
Background of study: Diphtheria, caused by Corynebacterium diphtheriae, is still a major global health concern, especially in resource-limited settings.
Adedoyin John-Joy Owolade, Damilola Bodun, Elijah Orimisan Akinbi, Samson Ayorinde Oni, Jeremiah Oluwamayowa Omojuyigbe, Taiwo Waris Olatunji, Ani Chibuike Sylvanus, Ayodele Emmanuel Oke   +7 more
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Long-term culture captures injury-repair cycles of colonic stem cells [PDF]

, 2019
The colonic epithelium can undergo multiple rounds of damage and repair, often in response to excessive inflammation. The responsive stem cell that mediates this process is unclear, in part because of a lack of in vitro models that recapitulate key ...
Chen, Feidi, Cheng, Jiye, Chiang, I-Ling, Fujii, Satoru, Gordon, Jeffrey I, Han, Nathan D, Janova, Hana, Lai, Chin-Wen, Liu, Ta-Chiang, Lu, Qiuhe, Muegge, Brian D, Ohara, Takahiro E, Sibley, L David, Stappenbeck, Thaddeus S, VanDussen, Kelli L, Ver Heul, Aaron, Wang, Yi, Whitehurst, Charles E, Wu, Renee, Xiong, Shanshan   +19 more
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Corynebacterium ulcerans 0102 carries the gene encoding diphtheria toxin on a prophage different from the C. diphtheriae NCTC 13129 prophage [PDF]

, 2012
BACKGROUND: Corynebacterium ulcerans can cause a diphtheria-like illness, especially when the bacterium is lysogenized with a tox gene-carrying bacteriophage that produces diphtheria toxin.
Akihiko Yamamoto, Fumihiko Takeuchi, Keigo Shibayama, Makoto Kuroda, Masaaki Iwaki, Motohide Takahashi, Takako Komiya, Tsuyoshi Kenri, Tsuyoshi Sekizuka   +8 more
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Late Presentation of Post Diphtheritic Myocarditis in a 15-year male

Journal of Nepal Medical Association, 2017
A 15-year old male patient presented to us with dyspnoea for four days. He had a history of fever, pseudo-membranous tonsillitis and cervical adenopathy twenty-five days prior to the presentation.
Kutty Sharada Vinod, Nitin Gupta, Harsh Sahu, Naveet Wig   +3 more
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Characterization of a transgenic mouse model of chronic conditional platelet depletion

Research and Practice in Thrombosis and Haemostasis, 2019
Background Platelets are widely recognized for their role in maintaining hemostasis. Recently, platelets have become appreciated for their varying roles in immunity, neuroprotection, and other physiological processes.
Leah M. Wuescher, Sharmeen Nishat, Randall G. Worth   +2 more
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EPI Update, June 3, 2011 [PDF]

, 2011
Weekly newsletter for Center For Acute Disease Epidemiology of Iowa Department of Public ...

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Design and Production of Recombinant TAT Protein Structure, Catalytic Domain of Diphtheria Toxin, and Evaluation of Its Effect on Cell Line

Majallah-i Dānishgāh-i ̒Ulūm-i Pizishkī-i Qum, 2019
Background and Objectives: Cancer is one of the most deadly diseases in the present age and its conventional therapies have had low success. Toxin therapy of cancer is a new therapeutic approach, which has attracted the attention of pharmaceutical ...
Mohaddeseh Parvand, Fahimeh Nemati Mansour, Jafar Amani   +2 more
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Severe faucial diphtheria with myocarditis: a case report

Zdorovʹe Rebenka
Background. Diphtheria is a potentially fatal contagious disease caused by toxigenic strains, characterized by inflammation of the upper respiratory tract mucosa, and may further generate toxicity in the myocardium and peripheral nerve.
Gabriella Tandipayuk, Seruni Estari, Dominicus Husada, Leny Kartina, Dwiyanti Puspitasari   +4 more
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