作者
S Tosun, A Batirel, AI Oluk, FİRDEVS Aksoy, E Puca, F Bénézit, S Ural, S Nayman-Alpat, TANSU Yamazhan, V Koksaldi-Motor, R Tekin, Emine Parlak, Pierre Tattevin, K Kart-Yasar, R Guner, A Bastug, M Meric-Koc, S Oncu, A Sagmak-Tartar, A Denk, Filiz Pehlivanoglu, Gonul Sengoz, SM Sørensen, G Celebi, Lenka Baštáková, H Gedik, S Dirgen-Caylak, A Esmaoglu, S Erol, Yasemin Cag, E Karagoz, Asuman Inan, Hakan Erdem
发表日期
2017/8
期刊
European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases
卷号
36
页码范围
1455-1462
出版商
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
简介
Tetanus is an acute, severe infection caused by a neurotoxin secreting bacterium. Various prognostic factors affecting mortality in tetanus patients have been described in the literature. In this study, we aimed to analyze the factors affecting mortality in hospitalized tetanus patients in a large case series. This retrospective multicenter study pooled data of tetanus patients from 25 medical centers. The hospitals participating in this study were the collaborating centers of the Infectious Diseases International Research Initiative (ID-IRI). Only adult patients over the age of 15 years with tetanus were included. The diagnosis of tetanus was made by the clinicians at the participant centers. Izmir Bozyaka Education and Research Hospital’s Review Board approved the study. Prognostic factors were analyzed by using the multivariate regression analysis method. In this study, 117 adult patients with tetanus were included …
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