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Tetanus in a rural low-income intensive care unit setting
Tetanus is a potentially severe but preventable infection. In resource-rich settings, vaccination programmes have reduced tetanus to a rare disease, though still carrying an overall mortality of some 13%. However, in low-income settings, tetanus remains common, and is a significant cause of mortalit...
Autores principales: | Olum, Sam, Eyul, Jacob, Lukwiya, Daniel Ocen, Scolding, Neil |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8010432/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33824951 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/braincomms/fcab013 |
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