Tag: Immunization
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Fetal-maternal immunization
* The transplacental haemorrhage responsible for alloimmunization occurs mostly during childbirth; Sometimes it is favored in pregnancy by the following circumstances (placental abruption, ectopic pregnancy, intrauterine death, cervical cerclage, amniocentesis …). These are generally the subsequent children will be achieved if Rh + as the first, severity of fetal hemolytic disease increases with the number…
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Novartis Bexsero vaccine approved by the European Commission
On Tuesday, the pharmaceutical group Novartis announced that its Bexsero vaccine indicated for the prevention of meningitis B had just obtained the approval of the European Union. Advanced viewed as a major medical progress against this disease that can cause death and serious sequelae. Each year worldwide, more than one million people are affected by…
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Pulmonary Tuberculosis
Pulmonary tuberculosis is a bacterial infection caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (BK), transmitted by air. After contamination, M. tuberculosis multiplies slowly in the lungs: the primary infection. In the absence of immunosuppression, pulmonary lesion heals in 90% of cases, but 10% of patients develop active TB. There are also extrapulmonary (meningitis, miliary, lymphatic, bone, etc.). Infection…
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