Background/aim: To assess the immune status against tetanus in relation to self-declared
vaccination status among an adult population in Yozgat, Turkey. Methods: Questionnaires …

Background Tetanus is a serious but vaccine-preventable disease and fatality rate of the
disease is high in the neonates and the elderly. The aim of this study was to detect the …

Aim: Tetanus is an acute and lethal disease caused by exotoxins named tetanospasmin
produced by Clostridium tetani. Despite being vaccine-preventable, tetanus is still a toxic …

In this study, tetanus immunity was determined in 549 randomly chosen individuals of
various age groups in Ankara, Turkey. Antibody levels in sera of the individuals were …

The objective of this study was to determine the tetanus immunity status of pregnant women
at the time of delivery according to tetanus toxoid (TT) vaccination coverage during their …

Background/aim: To evaluate the prevalence of tetanus vaccination in pregnant women and
determine the factors affecting the vaccination and barriers to vaccination. Materials and …

Our aim was to determine the level of tetanus immunity in the general Egyptian population.
The surveyed population consisted of 709 healthy subjects from five regions of Egypt, 2 …

Tetanus can be only prevented by vaccination because immunity against this disease is
rarely acquired, even by natural infections. To maintain long-term protective immunity …

Objective–To assess the status of tetanus during the last 20 years in Fars Province, Iran.
Methods–Analysis of the hospital records of all tetanus patients who were admitted to the …

The aim of the study was to determine immunity status of children to tetanus, and to assess
the Expanded Programme on Immunization. A total of 840 children aged 0–71 months were …