Immunity (medical)
In 1888 Emile Roux and Alexandre Yersin isolated diphtheria toxin, and following the 1890 discovery by Behring and Kitasato of ... Toxoids are inactivated toxic compounds from micro-organisms in cases where these (rather than the micro-organism itself) cause ... Glenny AT, Südmersen HJ (October 1921). "Notes on the Production of Immunity to Diphtheria Toxin". The Journal of Hygiene. 20 ( ... Examples of toxoid-based vaccines include tetanus and diphtheria. Subunit, recombinant, polysaccharide, and conjugate vaccines ...
Exotoxin
Other toxins act at elongation factor-2. In the case of the diphtheria toxin, EF2 is ADP-ribosylated and becomes unable to ... These retain their antigenic specificity and can be used to produce antitoxins and, in the case of diphtheria and tetanus ... diphtheria and monocomponent acellular pertussis (TdaP) vaccine in comparison to a tetanus and diphtheria (Td) vaccine when ... In such cases, antitoxin, anti-serum containing antibodies, can sometimes be injected to provide passive immunity. Many ...
DTaP-IPV-HepB vaccine
The majority of cases were found amongst 6-11 month old children. "Diphtheria, Tetanus Toxoids, Acellular Pertussis, Hepatitis ... The DTaP portion of the vaccine protects against three viruses: diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis (whooping cough). Diphtheria ... Like diphtheria, it is spread via human to human interaction. With the vaccine, children can build up a supply of antibodies ... "Diphtheria-Tetanus-Pertussis Vaccine Information Statement , CDC". www.cdc.gov. 27 June 2022. Archived from the original on 28 ...
DPT vaccine
The lower-case "d" and "p" indicate smaller concentrations of diphtheria toxoids and pertussis antigens, and "a" in "ap/aP" ... December 2006). "Preventing tetanus, diphtheria, and pertussis among adults: use of tetanus toxoid, reduced diphtheria toxoid ... March 2006). "Preventing tetanus, diphtheria, and pertussis among adolescents: use of tetanus toxoid, reduced diphtheria toxoid ... www.ema.europa.eu/documents/psusa/diphtheria/tetanus/pertussis-acellular-component-vaccine-adsorbed-diphtheria/tetanus/ ...
Croup
Many cases of croup are preventable by immunization for influenza and diphtheria. Most cases of croup are mild and the patient ... In more severe cases inhaled epinephrine may also be used. Hospitalization is required in one to five percent of cases. Croup ... The steeple sign is suggestive of the diagnosis, but is absent in half of cases. Other investigations (such as blood tests and ... Before vaccination, croup was frequently caused by diphtheria and was often fatal. This cause is now very rare in the Western ...
Esther Cleveland
Five years later, she contracted diphtheria. She made her debut in 1912 and was rumored to be engaged to Randolph D. West ... Three Other Cases at Princeton. The New York Times Staff report (1912?). MISS CLEVELAND'S DEBUT.; Daughter of Late President, ... The New York Times Staff report (May 21, 1901). ESTHER CLEVELAND ILL.; Daughter of ex-President Attacked with Diphtheria - ...
Harriet E. Garrison
Record, October 22, 1892); "Some Clinical Reflections on the Treatment of Diphtheria" (Dietetic Gazette, February 1893); " ... "Roseolo and Rothelin" (American Medico Surgical Bulletin, October 1894); "A Case of Exopthalmas in an Infant of Three Months ...
Crisis in Venezuela
"Venezuela did not experience a single case of diphtheria between 2006 and 2015"; according to the HRW/Johns Hopkins report, ... Between 2008 and 2015, there was one recorded case of measles, in 2012; since June 2017, 6,200 of the 9,300 reported cases have ... Cases of trafficking in Peru, the United States, Spain, and Colombia display the highest numbers. Due to lack of medical ... In 2013, Venezuela registered a new high in the number of cases of malaria in the past 50 years, and by 2014, was the only ...
Infectious Disease (Notification) Act 1889
Householders or general practitioners who failed to notify a case of one of these diseases was liable to a fine of up to forty ... The following diseases were covered by the acts: smallpox, cholera, diphtheria, membranous croup. erysipelas, scarlatina or ... These acts required householders and/or general practitioners to report cases of infectious disease to the local sanitary ...
National Anti-Vaccination League
1936, The Case Against Vaccination, Maurice Beddow Bayly. 1939, The Schick Inoculation Against Diphtheria, Maurice Beddow Bayly ... The cases of John Polley, William Pitt, and others, with an account of the action-at-law Polley v. Fordham., Burton, John ... "I believe we have hundreds of cases here, from being poisoned with vaccination, I deem incurable. One member of a family dating ...
Health in Venezuela
324 suspected diphtheria cases were reported in 2016, the first since 1992, and increasing numbers in following years, with 287 ... In November 2017 the Venezuelan Society of Public Health reported that a total of 857 cases of measles, of which 465 had been ... The Pan American Health Organization reported that at least 71% of the reported cases of measles in 2017 occurred in Venezuela ... In September 2014, Health Minister Nancy Pérez admitted that there were 45,745 cases of dengue fever. There were also contested ...
Iosepa, Utah
In 1896 there were even three cases of leprosy, and a pest house was built outside of town to isolate the lepers. ... Infectious disease took a heavy toll, including deaths from pneumonia, smallpox, and diphtheria. ...
Pharmaceutical industry
The United States recorded 206,000 cases of diphtheria in 1921, resulting in 15,520 deaths. In 1923, parallel efforts by Gaston ... The first diphtheria vaccines were produced in 1914 from a mixture of diphtheria toxin and antitoxin (produced from the serum ... Of this amount $2.5 billion was recovered through False Claims Act cases in FY 2010. Examples of fraud cases include the ... Severe cases of hypertension were treated by surgery. Early developments in the field of treating hypertension included ...
My Brother Jonathan
He is charged with not reporting a case of diphtheria and operating without permission. Dakers publicly accuses the medical ... When Dakers performs a life saving tracheotomy on a child with diphtheria, and takes the child to the cottage hospital, he is ... charged with misconduct, as the hospital charter precludes infectious cases. He is asked to attend a medical tribunal. Jonathan ...
Connaught Laboratories
In 1922, there were 747 cases and 32 deaths due to diphtheria in Hamilton. By 1927, the numbers had fallen to 11 cases and 1 ... In 1931, there were only 5 cases and no deaths. A year later, there was a single case and no deaths. Heparin is a blood thinner ... In particular, diphtheria (known as "The Strangler" for its infection of the respiratory system) was the leading cause of death ... In 1953, Canada's worst polio epidemic year, a total of almost 9,000 cases had claimed the lives of 494 people across the ...
Neuritis
Diphtheria, a once common childhood respiratory infection, produces a neurotoxin which can result in a biphasic neuropathy. ... Tuberculoid leprosy, seen in cases where host immunity is high, is not commonly associated with neuritis. It presents with a ... Some of the bacterial agents most associated with neuritis are leprosy, lyme disease, and diphtheria. Viral causes of neuritis ... Vitamin B6, pyridoxine, has been associated with peripheral nerve damage both in cases of deficiency and excess. Deficiency of ...
Robert Koch
3) Mit den Reinculturen muss die Krankheit experimentell wieder erzeugt werden können." (Now if diphtheria is a disease that's ... doi:10.1016/S1068-607X(02)00167-1. Shama, Gilbert (2019). "The "Petri" Dish: A Case of Simultaneous Invention in Bacteriology ... Loeffler, reporting his discovery of diphtheria bacillus in 1883, stated three postulates as follows: 1. The organism must ... Friedrich Loeffler discovered the bacteria of glanders (Burkholderia mallei) in 1882 and diphtheria (Corynebacterium ...
SS Roosevelt (1905)
The disease was confined to the ship, with no cases of diphtheria reported among people in the Pribilofs. While Roosevelt was ... The ship was unloading supplies at the Pribilofs when diphtheria broke out among her crew. After the physician on Saint Paul ...
2023 in Latvia
March 1 - after a 3-year break, a case of diphtheria was registered in Latvia. April 6 - Sarkandaugava traffic overpass across ... January 24 - Riga Regional Court announced the decision of the court of appeal in the Zolitude tragedy criminal case, found one ...
Robert McIntyre (politician)
The early-1940s witnessed a dramatic increase in the confirmed cases of diphtheria in Scotland. McIntyre was in charge of a ... major campaign of diphtheria immunisation directed at Paisley's schoolchildren, visiting every school in the area to persuade ...
Emmeline Pankhurst
In the case of Pankhurst, this reform took place in both intentional and unintentional ways. By defying the roles of wife and ... In 1888, Pankhurst's son Frank developed diphtheria. He died on 11 September. Overwhelmed with grief, Pankhurst commissioned ... The painful techniques (which, in the case of mouth-feeding, required the use of steel gags to force the mouth open) brought ... He began expressing more radical socialist views and argued a case in court against several wealthy businessmen. These actions ...
1st Medical Brigade (United States)
Sporadic cases of cerebrospinal meningitis, diphtheria, scarlet fever, mumps, and measles occurred, but no epidemic developed. ... The station treated chemical casualties as well as other cases and to a limited degree acted as a triage point. It was on the ... More than two-thirds of those cases were minor, and most of the patients were returned to duty in a short time directly from ... A camp for venereal cases was established southeast of Raulecourt, and patients who were able to do so were put to work as ...
Queensland Stock Institute
The first human cases in Queensland were diagnosed later that year, and plague examinations became a major part of the ... This included specimen examination for typhoid, diphtheria, and tuberculosis, diagnosis by bacteriology, and microscopy for ... Following the first reported cases of plague in Australia at Sydney in January 1900, Pound was asked to examine rats in ... diphtheria 65, and leprosy 17. Unique specimens from medical operations were preserved for the institute's museum using the " ...
Syrian civil war
In four cases UN inspectors confirmed the use of sarin gas. In August 2016, a confidential report by the United Nations and the ... These include measles, typhoid, hepatitis, dysentery, tuberculosis, diphtheria, whooping cough and the disfiguring skin disease ... By July 2012, the human rights group Women Under Siege had documented over 100 cases of rape and sexual assault during the ... As of late 2013 doctors and international public health agencies have reported more than 90 cases. Critics of the government ...
Subglottic stenosis
In these cases, it is believed that this is more common in people under the age of 20. Around 66% of sarcoidosis cases involve ... Less commonly, infections, such as bacterial tracheitis, tuberculosis, histoplasmosis, diphtheria, and laryngeal papillomatosis ... In mild cases, such as cases with only granuloma or thin, web-like tissue, dilation is able to remove the lesion. In severe ... In mild cases, the disease can be treated with endoscopic balloon dilation. In severe cases, open surgery is done. Owing to the ...
Henry F. Vaughan
During his time as health commissioner, there were significant cases of smallpox, typhoid fever, and diphtheria; however, many ... that this campaign will protect a higher percent of children between the ages of six month and ten years against diphtheria, ...
Journey into Medicine
During his internship in pediatrics, Marshall loses one of his patients, a young girl to diphtheria. This case inspires him to ... While studying at Johns Hopkins, Marshall helps battle an outbreak of diphtheria in Baltimore, which confirms to him his chosen ...
Vaccine ingredients
The quantity remaining in diphtheria or tetanus toxoid vaccines licensed in the US is required to be less than 0.1 milligrams ( ... been cases of allergic reaction to the proteins in gelatin. The source of gelatin, pork, is of religious concern to Jewish and ... These toxoid vaccines are used against tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis (whooping cough). If the bacteria polysaccharide ... However, phenol reduces the potency of diphtheria and tetanus toxoid-containing vaccines. Similarly, thiomersal weakens the ...
Pierre Charles Alexandre Louis
Louis responded by pointing out even individual cases have commonalities, and by claiming each case is unique, no progress ... However, in 1820 an outbreak of diphtheria forced him to recognize the inadequacy of his medical knowledge. He returned to ... Louis acknowledged his own research included too few cases for absolute certainty in the treatment methods, and his student ... Opponents argued that individual cases were too diverse to be combined into statistically average groups; ...
Arabella Kenealy
Keneally started to practice medicine in 1888 but diphtheria obliged her to give up medicine in 1894. In 1893 she wrote Dr ... Her father became a notorious Queen's Counsel barrister after his unusual behaviour in the Tichborne Case. She became a doctor ...