Diphtherie
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| Diphtherie | |
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| Diphtherie can cause a swollen neck, whiles referred tae as a bull neck.[1] | |
| Specialty | Infectious disease |
| Symptoms | Sore thrait, fiver, baurky coch[2] |
| Uisual onset | 2–5 days post-exposur[1] |
| Causes | Corynebacterium diphtheriae (spreid bi direct contact an throu the air)[1] |
| Diagnostic method | Thrait appearance, cultur[2] |
| Prevention | Diphtherie vaccine[1] |
| Treatment | Antibiotics, tracheostomy[1] |
| Frequency | 4,500 (reportit 2015)[3] |
| Daiths | 2,100 (2015)[4] |
Diphtherie is an infection caused bi the bacterium Corynebacterium diphtheriae.[1]
References[eedit | eedit soorce]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Atkinson, William (May 2012). Diphtheria Epidemiology and Prevention of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases (12 ed.). Public Health Foundation. pp. 215–230. ISBN 9780983263135. Archived frae the oreeginal on 15 September 2016.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Diphtheria vaccine" (PDF). Wkly Epidemiol Rec. 81 (3): 24–32. 20 January 2006. PMID 16671240. Archived (PDF) frae the oreeginal on 6 June 2015.
- ↑ "Diphtheria". who.int. 3 September 2014. Archived frae the oreeginal on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 27 March 2015.
- ↑ GBD 2015 Mortality and Causes of Death, Collaborators. (8 October 2016). "Global, regional, and national life expectancy, all-cause mortality, and cause-specific mortality for 249 causes of death, 1980-2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015". Lancet. 388 (10053): 1459–1544. doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(16)31012-1. PMC 5388903
. PMID 27733281.
