Clinical and epidemiological profile of patients with accidental tetanus in a referral hospital: a 13-year historical series
Elaine Cristina de Oliveira Souza, Julia Guedes Valentim do Nascimento, Victor Ota, Arthur Duarte Fantesia Costa Cruz, Caroline Alves da Costa, Ana Luiza Martins de Oliveira, Claudia Caminha Escosteguy, Rafael Mello Galliez · 2026
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Elaine Cristina de Oliveira Souza and co-authors review thirteen years of tetanus cases in 2026 at a referral hospital in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Tetanus from wounds remains dangerous where vaccine cover is patchy. The team charts who the patients were, how severe the illness became, and what infections and outcomes followed in intensive care.
Thirty patients were treated, most of them men from cities, with a median age of forty-three. Nearly all needed intensive care, most needed breathing machines, and many needed a surgical airway. Hospital infections struck seventy percent, most often lung infection tied to the breathing machine. About twenty-seven percent died in hospital, which underlines the long, hard course of severe tetanus.
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| CREATOR | Elaine Cristina de Oliveira Souza, Julia Guedes Valentim do Nascimento, Victor Ota, Arthur Duarte Fantesia Costa Cruz, Caroline Alves da Costa, Ana Luiza Martins de Oliveira, Claudia Caminha Escosteguy, Rafael Mello Galliez |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 35 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |