Neonatal tetanus in St. Mary’s Hospital Lacor: A case report

Umbilical stump sepsis in a nonpassively immunized neonate poses a high risk to neonatal tetanus. Management of neonatal tetanus is still a great challenge in resource‐limited settings where some health facilities lack tetanus toxoid containing vaccines, ventilator support, and inaccessibility of te...

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Autores principales: Okidi, Ronald, Sambo, Vanusa Da Consolação, Eyul, Jacob
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2020
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7669404/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33235766
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.3091
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description Umbilical stump sepsis in a nonpassively immunized neonate poses a high risk to neonatal tetanus. Management of neonatal tetanus is still a great challenge in resource‐limited settings where some health facilities lack tetanus toxoid containing vaccines, ventilator support, and inaccessibility of tetanus immunoglobulin.
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spelling pubmed-76694042020-11-23 Neonatal tetanus in St. Mary’s Hospital Lacor: A case report Okidi, Ronald Sambo, Vanusa Da Consolação Eyul, Jacob Clin Case Rep Case Reports Umbilical stump sepsis in a nonpassively immunized neonate poses a high risk to neonatal tetanus. Management of neonatal tetanus is still a great challenge in resource‐limited settings where some health facilities lack tetanus toxoid containing vaccines, ventilator support, and inaccessibility of tetanus immunoglobulin. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2020-07-18 /pmc/articles/PMC7669404/ /pubmed/33235766 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.3091 Text en © 2020 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/4.0/ License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Neonatal tetanus in St. Mary’s Hospital Lacor: A case report
title Neonatal tetanus in St. Mary’s Hospital Lacor: A case report
title_full Neonatal tetanus in St. Mary’s Hospital Lacor: A case report
title_fullStr Neonatal tetanus in St. Mary’s Hospital Lacor: A case report
title_full_unstemmed Neonatal tetanus in St. Mary’s Hospital Lacor: A case report
title_short Neonatal tetanus in St. Mary’s Hospital Lacor: A case report
title_sort neonatal tetanus in st. mary’s hospital lacor: a case report
topic Case Reports
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7669404/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33235766
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.3091
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