A Man With Intractable Convulsion

Tetanus is a rare disease in the United States. Fewer than 40 cases are reported annually because of the high incidence of vaccination. Recognition of the clinical presentations is important because laboratory recovery of pathogen is only 30%, and toxin detection is rare because of consumption at mo...

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Autores principales: Xia, Yun, Cutrona, Anthony, Barreiro, Timothy J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2015
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4885531/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27330266
http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/IPC.0000000000000238
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description Tetanus is a rare disease in the United States. Fewer than 40 cases are reported annually because of the high incidence of vaccination. Recognition of the clinical presentations is important because laboratory recovery of pathogen is only 30%, and toxin detection is rare because of consumption at motor neurons. We report a case of tetanus in an elderly man who had a reaction to tetanus vaccination as a child and was nonvaccinated through adult life.
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spelling pubmed-48855312016-06-15 A Man With Intractable Convulsion Xia, Yun Cutrona, Anthony Barreiro, Timothy J. Infect Dis Clin Pract (Baltim Md) Case Reports Tetanus is a rare disease in the United States. Fewer than 40 cases are reported annually because of the high incidence of vaccination. Recognition of the clinical presentations is important because laboratory recovery of pathogen is only 30%, and toxin detection is rare because of consumption at motor neurons. We report a case of tetanus in an elderly man who had a reaction to tetanus vaccination as a child and was nonvaccinated through adult life. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2015-07 2015-06-26 /pmc/articles/PMC4885531/ /pubmed/27330266 http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/IPC.0000000000000238 Text en Copyright © 2015 Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. All rights reserved. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License, where it is permissible to download and share the work provided it is properly cited. The work cannot be changed in any way or used commercially.
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