Pediatric Tetanus in Central Pennsylvania

Bilaal S. Ahmed; Michael J. Beck; Gregory Williamson; Jessica E. Ericson; Parvathi Kumar

doi:10.1093/jpids/piy086

Pediatric Tetanus in Central Pennsylvania

Bilaal S. Ahmed, Michael J. Beck, Gregory Williamson, Jessica E. Ericson, Parvathi Kumar

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Approximately 20% of the nationally reported tetanus infections in children aged 0 to 14 years that occurred in the United States between 2005 and 2015 were treated at Penn State Children's Hospital. With an electronic medical record search, we identified 5 cases of pediatric tetanus; 100% of these cases occurred in unimmunized children. Their median length of stay was 10 days, and the costs were significant.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	358-360
Number of pages	3
Journal	Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society
Volume	8
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/jpids/piy086
State	Published - Jan 18 2019

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