Successful management of generalized tetanus in a 12-year old girl without anti-tetanus immunoglobulins: a case report

In low-income countries tetanus is a major public health concern owing to a low immunization coverage and unclean birth practices. Although it is a vaccine-preventable disease, tetanus can be contracted across the life course. The disease is prevalent and harmful in newborn babies and their mothers...

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Autores principales: Muhelo, Arlindo, Zita, Ahivaldino, Seni, Amir, Arzuaga, Danys Alvarez, Smith, Lee, Pizzol, Damiano, Naber, Yasmin Al
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2022
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9514102/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36176952
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/omcr/omac098
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author Muhelo, Arlindo
Zita, Ahivaldino
Seni, Amir
Arzuaga, Danys Alvarez
Smith, Lee
Pizzol, Damiano
Naber, Yasmin Al
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description In low-income countries tetanus is a major public health concern owing to a low immunization coverage and unclean birth practices. Although it is a vaccine-preventable disease, tetanus can be contracted across the life course. The disease is prevalent and harmful in newborn babies and their mothers when the mothers` are unvaccinated against tetanus. We report on a case of a 12-year-old girl who presented with general malaise, anorexia, dysphagia, trismus and dehydration, which rapidly developed into severe generalized tetanus and was successfully managed in a low-resource setting without the availability of human anti-tetanus immunoglobulins.
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spelling pubmed-95141022022-09-28 Successful management of generalized tetanus in a 12-year old girl without anti-tetanus immunoglobulins: a case report Muhelo, Arlindo Zita, Ahivaldino Seni, Amir Arzuaga, Danys Alvarez Smith, Lee Pizzol, Damiano Naber, Yasmin Al Oxf Med Case Reports Case Report In low-income countries tetanus is a major public health concern owing to a low immunization coverage and unclean birth practices. Although it is a vaccine-preventable disease, tetanus can be contracted across the life course. The disease is prevalent and harmful in newborn babies and their mothers when the mothers` are unvaccinated against tetanus. We report on a case of a 12-year-old girl who presented with general malaise, anorexia, dysphagia, trismus and dehydration, which rapidly developed into severe generalized tetanus and was successfully managed in a low-resource setting without the availability of human anti-tetanus immunoglobulins. Oxford University Press 2022-09-26 /pmc/articles/PMC9514102/ /pubmed/36176952 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/omcr/omac098 Text en © The Author(s) 2022. Published by Oxford University Press. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Muhelo, Arlindo
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Arzuaga, Danys Alvarez
Smith, Lee
Pizzol, Damiano
Naber, Yasmin Al
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title_full Successful management of generalized tetanus in a 12-year old girl without anti-tetanus immunoglobulins: a case report
title_fullStr Successful management of generalized tetanus in a 12-year old girl without anti-tetanus immunoglobulins: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Successful management of generalized tetanus in a 12-year old girl without anti-tetanus immunoglobulins: a case report
title_short Successful management of generalized tetanus in a 12-year old girl without anti-tetanus immunoglobulins: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9514102/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36176952
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/omcr/omac098
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