Abstract:SUMMARYThe records of 76 patients with tetanus were reviewed. Factors associated with severe/ very severe cases were: age ≥ 70 years, incubation period ≤7 days, a time from first symptom to admission ≤ 4 days and a surgical portal of entry. Three different prognostic classifications were evaluated. Because of the small sample size, letality result found have very wide confident intervals, which do not allow the detection of possible significant differences in letality between confident intervals, whitch do not… Show more
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