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Document ID (ISN)31884
CIS number 79-1418
ISSN - Serial title 0465-546X - Medicina y seguridad del trabajo
Year 1978
Convention or series no.
Author(s) Gil Ausina E.
Title Treatment of tetanus
Original title Tratamiento del tétanos [in Spanish]
Bibliographic information Oct.-Dec. 1978, Vol.26, No.104, p.46-53. 13 ref.
Abstract This monograph on occupational tetanus in Spain emphasises the fact that prevention is the best treatment and stresses the importance of systematic vaccination and the role of the industrial physician. Considerations on the traditional methods of treating tetanus and different immunisation methods (active, passive, mixed).
Descriptors (primary) tetanus; medical prevention; vaccination
Descriptors (secondary) Spain; aetiology; pathogenesis; medical treatment; mortality
Document type -
Subject(s) Occupational pathology
Broad subject area(s)
Browse category(ies) Bacterial and parasitic diseases