Tetanus, also known as lockjaw, is a bacterial infection caused by Clostridium tetani and characterized by muscle spasms. In the most common type, the spasms begin in the jaw and then progress to the rest of the body.
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ICD-10 ChapterI: Certain Infectious and Parasitic Diseases 2 Communicable or Non-communicable Transmission Route Condition Classinfectious, bacterial, neurological 1 Causative Agent Causative Agent
Causative Agent (category) Tetanus
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Source Gavi VaccinesWork: 50 years of progress, how Bangladesh chose healthsection Bangladesh bets on vaccines, six-disease paragraphQuote, section Bangladesh bets on vaccines, six-disease paragraph
About a third of those deaths were attributable to the six diseases targeted by the country's vaccination programme at that time: measles, tuberculosis, polio, diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis
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These include tuberculosis, pneumonia, diarrhea, polio, measles, diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus, hepatitis, meningitis, yellow fever, malaria and cervical cancer.
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Source WHO Maternal and Neonatal Tetanus Elimination - The PartnershipWHO MNTE The Partnership page, launch sentencetier 1Quote, WHO MNTE The Partnership page, launch sentence
The Maternal and Neonatal Tetanus Elimination Initiative was launched by UNICEF, WHO and UNFPA in 1999
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1. Tetanus (Wikipedia)
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is a bacterial infection caused by Clostridium tetani and characterized by muscle spasms
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Infectious disease, neurology, critical care medicine
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Certain infectious and parasitic diseases
3. Wikidata: Tetanus
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Disease transmission process: contact transmission
Hexavalent vaccine (Wikipedia)
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The term usually refers to the children's vaccine that protects against diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, poliomyelitis, haemophilus B, and hepatitis B, which is used in more than 90 countries around the world including in Europe, Canada, Australia, Jordan, and New Zealand.
Tetanus Vaccine (Wikipedia)
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Tetanus vaccine, also known as tetanus toxoid (TT), is a toxoid vaccine used to prevent tetanus.
DPT vaccine (Wikipedia)
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The DPT vaccine or DTP vaccine is a class of combination vaccines to protect against three infectious diseases in humans: diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough), and tetanus (lockjaw).
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