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Children living in conflict or post‐conflict zones are frequently exposed to explosive injuries, with thousands killed and injured every year. The clinical practice guideline from the Explosive Weapons Trauma Care Collective (EXTRACCT) group provides a review of current best practice for the resuscitation of a child who has sustained a blast injury in ...
Gavin Wooldridge +6 more
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Tetanus trismus in a 2 year old child: Case report [PDF]
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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In this real‐world study among 14,459 adults with MG, exposure to any contraindicated treatment was not significantly associated with risk of ICU admission for MG but was associated with significantly higher risk of death. In contrast, statins were associated with a greater risk of ICU admission but a lower risk of death.
Guilhem Solé +7 more
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Replacement, Reduction and Refinement of Animal Testing in the Quality Control of Human Vaccines [PDF]
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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The cultural currency of Nicholas Cage: Does it matter for teaching medicine?
Abstract Medical educators are often encouraged to develop innovative teaching practices. This can include using media such as movies and film clips to illustrate good or bad science and/or medical practice. As material gets older, educators are encouraged to find newer or more culturally aligned content, in order to stay relevant.
Pip Garner +2 more
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Bafilomycin A1, a vacuolar H+-ATPase inhibitor, and botulinum toxin B and tetanus toxin, both vesicle fusion inhibitors, are widely known exocytosis blockers that have been used to inhibit the presynaptic release of neurotransmitters.
Dong Ho Woo +4 more
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An Unusual Case of Tetanus Masquerading as an Acute Abdomen: A Case Report
Introduction: Tetanus is an acute onset neurological disease that is often lethal. It has a high disease burden in low and middle-income countries. Tetanus is caused by a toxin made by spores of the bacterium Clostridium tetani, which are found in soil ...
Rahul Kumar Thakur +3 more
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Spontaneous neuronal network activity is critical for circuit maturation, yet whether this is a feature of enteric nervous system development has yet to be established. Here, we identify clustered ripples, a previously undescribed form of neurogenic gastrointestinal motility that shares many features with spontaneous neuronal networks in other systems.
Lori B. Dershowitz +4 more
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Immunoenzimatic detection of the Clostridium tetani bacterial toxin: an alternative to mice bioassays. Cell-free extracts from 20 strains of Clostridium tetani isolated from soil samples, were tested for tetanus toxin production using an enzyme ...
Fernando Chaves +2 more
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Robust Humoral and Cellular Immune Responses to Pertussis in Adults After a First Acellular Booster Vaccination [PDF]
IntroductionTo reduce the pertussis disease burden, nowadays several countries recommend acellular pertussis (aP) booster vaccinations for adults.
Anne-Marie Buisman +10 more
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