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Individual and community-level determinants of poor tetanus toxoid immunization among pregnant women in Ethiopia using data from 2016 Ethiopian demographic and health survey; multilevel analysis

Archives of Public Health, 2021
Background Tetanus is a vaccine-preventable disease that can occur in all populations, with neonates and pregnant women being at the most risk. Ethiopia has the highest maternal and neonatal tetanus morbidity and mortality rates.
Alemneh Mekuriaw Liyew, Hiwotie Getaneh Ayalew   +1 more
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An Unusual Case of Chronic Relapsing Tetanus Associated with Mandibular Osteomyelitis [PDF]

, 2009
A 55-year-old man underwent radiation therapy due to malignant lymphoma of the neck. Eight years after the therapy he developed tetanus. It appears that the radiation therapy resulted in mandibular necrosis, and that this lesion may have been the ...
Fujimuro, Masahiro, Jackson, Mandy, Kawarabayashi, Takeshi, Kimura, Tamaki, Matsubara, Etsuro, Nakahata, Naoko, Seino, Yusuke, Shirahama, Ikumi, Shoji, Mikio, Suzuki, Chieko, Takamura, Ayumi, Tomiyama, Masahiko, Wakasaya, Yasuhito, Watanabe, Mitsunori, Yamamoto-Watanabe, Yukiko   +14 more
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Decline of Tetanus Antitoxin Level with Age in Taiwan

Journal of the Formosan Medical Association, 2009
Tetanus is caused by Clostridium tetani, and is a vaccine-preventable infectious disease. The purpose of this study was to investigate the degree of protective tetanus immunity among adolescents and adults in Taiwan, which may provide valuable ...
Chi-Jung Wu, Huei-Chen Ko, Hsin-Chun Lee, Wei-Chuan Tsai, Min-Gi Li, Yu-Zhen Pao, Nan-Yao Lee, Chia-Ming Chang, Hsin-I Shih, Wen-Chien Ko   +9 more
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Differentials in prevalence and correlates on uptake of tetanus toxoid and intermittent preventive treatment with sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine during pregnancy: A community-based cross-sectional study in The Gambia

SAGE Open Medicine, 2022
Objectives: The study examined the differentials in prevalence and correlates on the uptake of tetanus toxoid and intermittent preventive treatment of malaria among pregnant women in The Gambia.
Amadou Barrow, Sulayman Barrow, Amienatta Jobe   +2 more
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Awareness and Uptake of Tetanus Toxoid Vaccination Among Females of Reproductive Age in Rawalpindi

Pakistan Armed Forces Medical Journal, 2023
Objectives: To determine awareness and uptake of tetanus toxoid vaccination among females of reproductive age in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Study Design: Cross-sectional study. Place and Duration of Study: Fauji Foundation Hospital, Rawalpindi Pakistan,
Shumaila Humayun, Naila Azam
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Involvement of Mhc Loci in immune responses that are not Ir-gene-controlled [PDF]

, 1982
Twenty-nine randomly chosen, soluble antigens, many of them highly complex, were used to immunize mice of two strains, C3H and B10.RIII. Lymphnode cells from the immunized mice were restimulated in vitro with the priming antigens and the proliferative ...
C. J. Kreo, C. N. Baxevanis, C. N. Baxevanis, D. L. Longo, E. A. Lerner, E. M. Shevach, G. Corradin, H. Lemke, H. O. McDevitt, H. O. McDevitt, J. Sprent, J. T. Nepom, Jan Klein, K. Ozato, L.P. Ryder, M. Shigeta, Matko Marušić, N. Ishii, P. C. Dubriel, P. P. Jones, R. H. Schwartz, R. M. Zinkernagel, U. K. Laemmli, U. Koszinowski, Ulrich Koszinowski, V. T. Oi, Y. Hosaka, Z. A. Nagy, Zoltan A. Nagy   +28 more
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Determinants of neonatal mortality in rural India, 2007-2008. [PDF]

, 2013
Background. Despite the growing share of neonatal mortality in under-5 mortality in the recent decades in India, most studies have focused on infant and child mortality putting neonatal mortality on the back seat.
Kumar, A., Kumar, A., Singh, Aditya
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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, Chen, PP, Jirik, FR, Kipps, TJ, Roudier, J, Tighe, H, Tucker, R   +6 more
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IMMUNOBIOLOGICAL characteristic of tetanus toxoid fractions before and after exposure to ultrasonic waves [PDF]

Annals of Mechnikov's Institute, 2012
Fractional composition of industrial tetanus toxoid before and after exposure to ultrasonic waves was determined with the use of gel filtration chromatography.
Plugator TN, Kovalenko OI, Sklyar N.I.,, Ryzhkova TA, Kivva FV, Ryabovol EV, Kalinichenko SV, Babych EM, Eglit VA, Bilozerskii VI   +9 more
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Knowledge about and preventive practices against neonatal tetanus among young Nigerian women

Tzu Chi Medical Journal, 2019
Objective: The objective of this study was carried out to determine the knowledge about and preventive practices against neonatal tetanus (NNT) in young women of reproductive age.
C A Adegbenro, Samuel Anu Olowookere, F O Fehintola, P A Adegbenro, O T Orioke   +4 more
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