0 a serious disease caused by bacteria entering the human body through small cuts, causing the muscles, especially around the mouth, to become tight and stop working
1 an infectious disease that causes the muscles esp. around the mouth to become stiff
Duration of protective efficacy of equine influenza immunostimulating complex\tetanus vaccines.
Although additional codes examined may have indicated possible miscoding as tetanus in a number of other cases, they were not excluded from further analysis.
The average annual incidence of reported tetanus was 0.20 per million population (annual range 0.04-0.39).
Although a number of patients developed altered mental status, none had focal neurological changes indicative of botulism or tetanus.
Once infected, the child becomes ill and often dies within 4-14 days of age from tetanus toxemia.
These differences were due to the fact that men receive a booster dose against tetanus toxoid on entering military service.
Only 6 of these 13 work-related cases were reported as having received any previous tetanus vaccination.
The high levels of susceptibility to tetanus and diphtheria have two main causes.
