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Tetanus is a difficult diagnosis in children
Детские инфекции (Москва), 2019 The sporadic incidence of tetanus, the identity of symptoms with the clinical picture of a number of common neuroinfections, the high frequency of various background pathologies create difficulties in disease diagnosing in children.
E. M. Simovanyan +2 more
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Mandatory vaccinations in European countries, undocumented information, false news and the impact on vaccination uptake: the position of the Italian pediatric society. [PDF]
, 2018 BACKGROUND: High rates of vaccination coverage are important in preventing infectious diseases. Enforcing mandatory vaccinations is one of the strategies that some Countries adopted to protect the community when vaccination coverage is not satisfactory ...
Bozzola E +5 more
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A Personalised Vaccination Program Based on Immune Reconstitution in Paediatric Cancer Survivors
Acta Paediatrica, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Aims Paediatric cancer survivors often experience treatment‐induced immunosuppression, requiring post‐treatment revaccination. However, immune recovery timelines vary, and current revaccination guidelines, largely based on data of varied quality derived from studies on acute‐lymphoblastic‐leukaemia (ALL), may not be applicable across all ...
Menucha Jurkowicz +17 more
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Cephalic Tetanus: A Case Report
Case Reports in Infectious Diseases, 2011 A case report of cephalic tetanus in a 2-year-old girl who was not immunized against tetanus following suppurative otitis media (SOM) is presented.
M. A. Alhaji +3 more
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Function of B cells expressing a human immunoglobulin M rheumatoid factor autoantibody in transgenic mice. [PDF]
, 1993 We have generated transgenic mice that express the immunoglobulin (Ig)M heavy chain and kappa light chain genes coding for a human IgM rheumatoid factor (RF), Les.
Carson, DA +6 more
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British Journal of Pharmacology, EarlyView.Background and Purpose Maternal hypoxia is a recognised risk factor for neurodevelopmental disorders in offspring. Although rodent models of hypoxia have been reported, the detailed pathogenesis of maternal hypoxia‐induced neurodevelopmental disorders remains unclear.
Kentaro Tokudome +6 more
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Paediatric otogenic tetanus: an evidence of poor immunization in Nigeria
The Pan African Medical Journal, 2017 Suppurative otitis media is a common childhood infection that predisposes to otogenic tetanus. Tetanus is a vaccine preventable disease that is associated high cost of care and mortality.
Segun Ayodeji Ogunkeyede +2 more
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Exploring the functional domain and the target of the tetanus toxin light chain in neurohypophysial terminals [PDF]
, 1994 The tetanus toxin light chain blocks calcium induced vasopressin release from neurohypophysial nerve terminals. Here we show that histidine residue 233 within the putative zinc binding motif of the tetanus toxin light chain is essential for the ...
Binz, T. +7 more
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Clinical &Experimental Allergy, EarlyView.Mapping IgG epitopes of the major birch allergen Bet v 1 identified patient‐derived, hypoallergenic peptides that did not trigger degranulation. These findings support a novel, safer approach for peptide‐based allergen immunotherapy that leverages naturally induced IgG specificities from allergic individuals. ABSTRACT Background Allergen immunotherapy (
Lara Šošić +10 more
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Challenges of tracheostomy in patients managed for severe tetanus in a developing country
International Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2010 Objectives: Severe tetanus is one of the indications for admissions into the intensive care unit requiring muscular paralysis, tracheo-stomy and mechanical ventilatory support.
Ayotunde James Fasunla
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