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Tetanus: epidemiology and Factors Associated with Death in the Departement of Tropical and infectious diseases of Donka National Hospital, Guinea Volume 29, issue 3, Juillet-Août-Septembre 2019

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Authors
1 Université Gamal Abdel Nasser de Conakry, Guinée
2 Service des maladies infectieuses et tropicales de l’hôpital national Donka, Conakry, Guinée
3 Institut national de santé publique, Conakry, Guinée
4 Service de dermatologie-vénéréologie de l’hôpital national Donka, Conakry, Guinée
* Correspondance

Introduction

In developing countries, tetanus remains a public health problem because of its frequency, severity, and still high mortality. The objective of this study was to describe the epidemiological profile of patients hospitalized for tetanus and to identify the factors associated with dying from it.