Diphtheria Vaccine
The vaccine is made from a cell-free purified toxin extracted from a strain of C. diphtheriae and treated with formaldehyde which converts it into a diphtheria toxoid. These are NOT live vaccines and can not cause the diphtheria.
Category Tropical Medicine
Cholera Vaccine
Cholera has a 50% mortality if left untreated. Find out when to give the vaccine and how best to protect yourself via our A-Z tropical vaccine library.
Rabies Immunoglobulin (RIG)
Risk has also been categorised as low in those animals that are healthy and can be observed versus high risk in those that are wild, unwell or can not be observed. Human rabies immunoglobulin (HRIG) is taken from the plasma…
Carl von Liebermeister
Biography Born 2 February 1833, Ronsdorf Died 24 November 1901, Tübingen Medical Eponyms Liebermeister rule: Defining the relationship between pulse frequency and body temperature in fever. In fever, when the body temperature increases by one degree centigrade, the pulse frequency…
Fever, Abdominal pain, Constipation and Mary
Tropical Traveler Clinical Case. Salmonella Typhi, aetiology, differential, diagnosis, management, treatment and prevention
Tonsillitis and the Bull
Just a case of tonsillitis, I've put them in short stay for review ...then you see the pseudomembrane, hear the gurgling and think diphtheria
Fever, Arthralgia and Rash
Tropical and Travel Case 010, Fever, Arthralgia and Rash in a traveler from Bali. Could it be Dengue?
Humongous HIV Extravaganza
Tropical Travel Trouble is a series of clinical cases that you may see in the tropics or your own ED from the dreaded returned traveller. HIV
Total TB Extravaganza
What is tuberculosis (TB)? This tropical travel clinical case extravaganza covers aetiology, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of TB
Mega Malaria Extravaganza
Part 1 of 3 of our mega tropical series covering Malaria, TB and HIV. Remember there is not always a unifying diagnosis...
Watery Diarrhoea
What is cholera and how is it transmitted? How do we treat it? How would you manage an outbreak? So much to learn about Watery Diarrhoea...
RUQ Pain and Jaundice
Entamoeba histolytica is a protozoan parasite that can invade tissue. Find out more about aetiology, diagnosis, management and treatment