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Cephalic tetanus manifesting as isolated facial nerve palsy- a case report from rural Armenia
Cephalic tetanus is a rare clinical form of tetanus, clinically characterized by trismus and cranial nerve palsy involving one or more cranial nerves, facial nerve being the most common.
Armen Kishmiryan+7 more
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Tetanus prevention is largely dependent on adequate vaccination, but it might also be influenced by climate change and not necessarily the level of development of a country. In the future, it will be necessary for not only developing countries but also developed countries that are susceptible to climate change to be on guard against urban flooding ...
Junko Yamaguchi, Kosaku Kinoshita
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THE ANTITOXIN OF TETANUS. [PDF]
Among the many principles on which are based our modern theories of the etiology and therapeutics of disease is that of the vaccinating or immunizing power of attenuated cultures of specific microorganisms. Although this principle is forecast by Jenner's discovery of the vaccine against variola, it is to the great Frenchman, Pasteur, that should be ...
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Health Science Reports, Volume 6, Issue 11, November 2023.
Tolulope J. Ogunniyi+3 more
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Loss of AP-3 function affects spontaneous and evoked release at hippocampal mossy fiber synapses [PDF]
Synaptic vesicle (SV) exocytosis mediating neurotransmitter release occurs spontaneously at low intraterminal calcium concentrations and is stimulated by a rise in intracellular calcium. Exocytosis is compensated for by the reformation of vesicles at plasma membrane and endosomes.
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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]
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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Introduction of Macromolecules into Bovine Adrenal Medullary Chromaffin Cells and Rat Pheochromocytoma Cells (PC12) by Permeabilization with Streptolysin O: Inhibitory Effect of Tetanus Toxin on Catecholamine Secretion [PDF]
Conditions are described for controlled plasma membrane permeabilization of rat pheochromocytoma cells (PC12) and cultured bovine adrenal chromaffin cells by Streptolysin O (SLO).
Ahnert-Hilger G.+29 more
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TETANUS TREATED WITH ANTITOXIN. [PDF]
At this time, when the serum therapy of disease is receiving close attention, it seems well to report all cases in which a test of this mode of treatment has been made. Tetanus is not the least important of the diseases in which antitoxic serum is employed as a curative means.
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Equine serum hepatitis (i.e., Theiler’s disease) is a serious and often life-threatening disease of unknown etiology that affects horses. A horse in Nebraska, USA, with serum hepatitis died 65 days after treatment with equine-origin tetanus antitoxin. We
Thomas J. Divers+18 more
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Background: Tetanus remains common in many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) yet the evidence base guiding management of this disease is extremely limited, particularly with respect to contemporary management options.
Nguyen Van Hao+17 more
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