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unusual facts about Tetanus


Lockjaw

Tetanus, an infectious disease of the central nervous system.


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DTAP

DTaP, a vaccine for diphtheria, pertussis, and tetanus.

Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly

While attempting to prevent the Swedish from crossing into Bavaria over the Lech near the Rain am Lech, he was wounded by a cannonball early in the Battle of Rain and died of tetanus fifteen days later in Ingolstadt at the age of 73 on 30 April 1632.

Lockjaw

Trismus, a pathological condition in which the mouth is held shut by sustained spasm of the masseter (jaw) muscle, often observed in cases of tetanus.

Passive immunity

In 1888 Emile Roux and Alexandre Yersin isolated diphtheria toxin, and following the 1890 discovery of an antitoxin-based immunity to diphtheria and tetanus, by Emil Adolf von Behring and Kitasato Shibasaburō, antitoxin became the first major success of modern therapeutic immunology.

Past medical history

Immunizations: take a careful record of all immunizations, including tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis, polio, Hepatitis B, measles, mumps, rubella, Haemophilus influenzae type B, influenza.


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