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How many days it can protect the person injected with anti tetanus serum against tetanus?
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∙ 13y ago
10 years, then you have to get another one.
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What are anti tetanus serum drugs?
Anti-tetanus serum drugs are the medications which are injected as a vaccine to prevent a person from getting tetanus. The most commonly used drug is called tetanus toxoid.
Anti tetanus serum is also known as?
Anti-tetanus serum is also known as tetanus immune globlulin. In the US, commercial brands available include HyperTet and BayTet. Blood from people who have been immunized with tetanus vaccine is processed to get the tetanus antibodies, which is injected to prevent tetanus in an un-immunized person.
What is the drug of choice if patient is anti tetanus serum positive?
Tetanus is caused by a toxin released by a bacterial organism. The serum contains antibodies to the toxin produced by the bacterium Clostridium tetani. The antibodies inactivate the toxin in the blood stream and prevent an individual from experiencing tetanus.
Is tetanus communicable?
No. Not under normal circumstances. Tetanus is a communicable disease that is acquired by exposure to the bacterium or its spores in soil. Human-human contact of any sort will not transmit tetanus from one person to another. However any infectious disease can be passed from an infected patient to a healthy person using medical technology, so it is not true to say it is impossible.
How exactly do vaccines aid the immune system?
when it is injected it goes into the cell and the cell produces antibodies against the virus which further protects a person
An injection to stop you getting a disease?
You are referring to a vaccination. Vaccinations work in one of two ways; either a very low active dose of the disease is injected or an inactive, killed variety is injected. In either case, these injections stimulate the body to make antibodies against the pathogen (virus or bacteria) so if it enters the body later, there is an 'army' of antibodies already armed and waiting for it, and the pathogen is quickly conquered before the person ever becomes ill. Many of these injections last over a lifetime; others may require booster injections later. An example of this is tetanus; a single tetanus shot is only good for about ten years. However, once you are inoculated against measles or have had the measles, you will never get this disease again. It depends on the pathogen in question.
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If a person's immune system is producing antibodies against a specific antigen, then that person has a positive or active immunity toward that antigen. If a person has merely been injected with antibodies but does not produce them, that is a passive immunity.
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Who discovered tetanus disease?
Several important scientists made significant contributions to the control of tetanus. Arthur Nicolaier (1862-1942) discovered he tetanus bacterium in 1884. Three years later, while engaged in a study of disinfectants, German bacteriologist Emil von Behring noticed that the blood serum of tetanus-immune laboratory rats neutralized the anthrax bacteria. He set about isolating the substance that gave the rats resistance to the bacteria.In the Berlin laboratory of scientist Robert Koch, Behring joined with Japanese bacteriologist Shibasaburo Kitasato, the first person to isolate the tetanus bacterium in pure culture in 1889. He later isolated and described the bacteria that cause diphtheria, anthrax, and bubonic plague. Behring and Kitasato discovered that the presence of tetanus and diphtheria toxins in blood cause the blood to produce antitoxins that neutralize the poisonous substances. When they injected small amounts of tetanus toxin into animals, the animals produced antitoxins, which gave them immunity from the disease. Furthermore, blood serum containing antitoxins extracted from these animals and injected it into other animals, gave the new animals immunity to tetanus, as well.They called this procedure "blood serum therapy."Behring developed a way to produce antitoxin serum in guinea pigs, and later developed a toxin-antitoxin mixture which was an effective vaccine against tetanus. In 1893, French scientist, Pierre-Paul-Emile Roux (1853-1933), assistant to Louis Pasteur at the Pasteur Institute, developed improved procedures for using antitoxin serum to prevent as well as treat tetanus.
