Mild disease with a clear or puss discharge and irritation of the nose and upper lip occurs in patients who have only nasal diphtheria. Skin lesions usually occur on the limbs and are varied in ...

In my more than 30 years as a practicing pediatrician, I have never seen a single patient with diphtheria. That’s because vaccination efforts in this country have been so successful. In the ...

As diphtheria cases resurfaced in Nigeria, claiming three lives in just two months, the country is once again faced with the ...

THE perennial alarm of the possible transmission of diphtheria from diseased animals to man is- again occupying the attention of the British daily press. This time it arose out of the death of a ...

What is Tetanus, Diphtheria and Pertussis? Tetanus is caused by a germ that enters the body through a cut or a wound. Tetanus (Lockjaw) causes painful tightening of the muscles all over the body and ...

This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. Between October, 1918, and August, 1919, 75 cases of diphtheria and 102 carriers o f diphtheria bacilli were treated at the Walter Reed ...

We currently have six patients on admission, with only one on oxygen. This is the highest number of diphtheria patients we have had at once,' he said. Provided by SyndiGate Media Inc.

After internalization by receptor-mediated endocytosis, the cleaved diphtheria toxin kills the ... to improve the selection of candidate patients, optimize drug effectiveness with minimal ...

The World Health Organization estimates that 50% of vaccines are wasted globally each year due to cold chain issues.