Generalized tetanus in adults without antitetanus booster vaccination in southern Mauritania

Tetanus has become rare in countries with high levels of vaccination coverage and hygiene but may still occur in adults without booster vaccination. In addition to the expanded program on immunization for children and maternal immunization against neonatal tetanus, a systematic vaccination of the po...

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Autores principales: Boushab, Boushab Mohamed, Fall‐Malick, Fatim‐Zahra, Savadogo, Mamoudou, Basco, Leonardo K.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2018
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5930233/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29744067
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1470
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author Boushab, Boushab Mohamed
Fall‐Malick, Fatim‐Zahra
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Basco, Leonardo K.
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description Tetanus has become rare in countries with high levels of vaccination coverage and hygiene but may still occur in adults without booster vaccination. In addition to the expanded program on immunization for children and maternal immunization against neonatal tetanus, a systematic vaccination of the population, including boosters, is recommended.
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spelling pubmed-59302332018-05-09 Generalized tetanus in adults without antitetanus booster vaccination in southern Mauritania Boushab, Boushab Mohamed Fall‐Malick, Fatim‐Zahra Savadogo, Mamoudou Basco, Leonardo K. Clin Case Rep Case Reports Tetanus has become rare in countries with high levels of vaccination coverage and hygiene but may still occur in adults without booster vaccination. In addition to the expanded program on immunization for children and maternal immunization against neonatal tetanus, a systematic vaccination of the population, including boosters, is recommended. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2018-03-09 /pmc/articles/PMC5930233/ /pubmed/29744067 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1470 Text en © 2018 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non‐commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.
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Generalized tetanus in adults without antitetanus booster vaccination in southern Mauritania
title Generalized tetanus in adults without antitetanus booster vaccination in southern Mauritania
title_full Generalized tetanus in adults without antitetanus booster vaccination in southern Mauritania
title_fullStr Generalized tetanus in adults without antitetanus booster vaccination in southern Mauritania
title_full_unstemmed Generalized tetanus in adults without antitetanus booster vaccination in southern Mauritania
title_short Generalized tetanus in adults without antitetanus booster vaccination in southern Mauritania
title_sort generalized tetanus in adults without antitetanus booster vaccination in southern mauritania
topic Case Reports
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5930233/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29744067
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1470
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