%0 Journal Article
%T T¨¦tano: situa£¿£¿o imunit¨¢ria de uma popula£¿£¿o infantil urbana de S£¿o Paulo (SP), Brasil
%A Iizuka
%A Hideyo
%A Higashi
%A Hisako Gondo
%A Oliveira
%A Edison P. Tavares de
%A Porto
%A Ananias Pereira
%A Assis
%A Arthur Tadeu de
%A Nichejevis
%A Tatiana
%A Sodr¨¦
%A Airton Marcondes
%J Revista de Sa¨²de P¨²blica
%D 1979
%I Universidade de S?o Paulo
%R 10.1590/S0034-89101979000200007
%X ascertainment of the antitetanic immune state in a group of 126 children, 5 to 7 years old, from the infant population of s. paulo city (brazil), disclosed 41% and 21% of 5 and 6-year-old individuals respectively, susceptible to tetanus. all the 7-year-old children showed protection against tetanus, revealing a circulating antitoxin content at levels superior to 0.01 iu/ml. by analysis of the results it became clear that susceptibility varies in inverse ratio to age. the mean content of tetanus antitoxin oscillated between 0.0289 and 0.1143 iu/ml of serum.
%K tetanus [child]
%K tetanus [s. paulo
%K sp
%K brazil]
%K tetanus antitoxin
%K immunity.
%U http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0034-89101979000200007&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en