Tetanus

Tetanus is an acute, often fatal, disease caused by an exotoxin produced by Clostridium tetani. The bacilli are widely distributed in soil and in the intestine and faeces of many animals.

Manifestations: The incubation period varies from 3 to 21 days. Symptoms include:

Muscle stiffness involving the jaws
Muscle stiffness involving the neck
Spasms
Difficulty swallowing

Diagnose and treatment: There are no laboratory findings characteristic of tetanus. Treatment with immune globulin is available. Vaccine is effective

Prevent tetanus by:

Vaccination

Tetanus Resource:

First detection of spotted fever group rickettsiae in Ixodes ricinus and Dermacentor reticulatus ticks in the UK.

Epidemiol Infect

The occurrence of spotted fever rickettsioses and other tick-borne infections in forest workers in Poland.

Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis

What's eating you? Dermacentor ticks.

Cutis

Monitoring of resistance or susceptibility of adults and larvae of Amblyomma cajennense (Acari: Ixodidae) to synthetic acaricides in Goiás, Brazil.

Exp Appl Acarol

Rickettsia Sca2 is a bacterial formin-like mediator of actin-based motility.

Nat Cell Biol

Looking the other way: preventing vector-borne disease among travelers to the United States.

Travel Med Infect Dis

[Correlations between climate change-related infectious diseases and meteorological factors in Korea].

J Prev Med Public Health

A Kunitz protease inhibitor from Dermacentor variabilis, a vector for spotted fever group rickettsiae, limits Rickettsia montanensis invasion.

Infect Immun

Rickettsial infections of dogs, horses and ticks in Juiz de Fora, southeastern Brazil, and isolation of Rickettsia rickettsii from Rhipicephalus sanguineus ticks.

Med Vet Entomol

[Japanese spotted fever].

Nihon Rinsho

Survey of ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) and their rickettsia in an Atlantic rain forest reserve in the State of São Paulo, Brazil.

J Med Entomol

Rickettsia spp. in wild small mammals in Lower Bavaria, South-Eastern Germany.

Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis

Ticks parasitizing humans in Greece.

Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis

100th anniversary of the death of Ricketts: Howard Taylor Ricketts (1871-1910). The namesake of the Rickettsiaceae family.

Microbes Infect

Pathogens and symbionts in ticks: a survey on tick species distribution and presence of tick-transmitted micro-organisms in Sardinia, Italy.

J Med Microbiol

Topical treatment with incision and antiseptic may prevent the severity of Japan spotted fever.

J Dermatol

Dermatologic emergencies.

Am Fam Physician

Acute undifferentiated febrile illness in adult hospitalized patients: the disease spectrum and diagnostic predictors - an experience from a tertiary care hospital in South India.

Trop Doct

Tick-borne rickettsioses, neglected emerging diseases in rural Senegal.

PLoS Negl Trop Dis

Tick-borne disease agents in various wildlife from Mississippi.

Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis

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