William H. Park
William H. Park (1863–1939), NYC bacteriologist who advanced diphtheria antitoxin, milk safety, and defined ethical dilemmas in the case of Typhoid Mary.
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Anna Williams
Anna Wessels Williams (1863–1954), American bacteriologist and public health pioneer, advanced diphtheria treatment and women in medicine
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Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 341 - Just when you thought your brain could unwind, enter the medical trivia of FFFF.
Joseph O’Dwyer
Joseph O'Dwyer (1841 – 1898) was an American physician. Father of laryngeal intubation in croup; O'Dwyer plain tube; system for intralaryngeal intubation; Fell-O’Dwyer apparatus
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Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 238 - Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, some medical trivia FFFF.
Diphtheria Antitoxin
Find out when to give the diphtheria vaccine in the immunisation schedule and when to give the antitoxin via our A-Z tropical vaccine library.
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.
Sore throat DDx
Sore throat can be more than a viral pharyngitis! Differential diagnosis
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