Pfausler B, Kampfl A, Haring H P, Berek K, Luef G, Schmutzhard E
Arbeitsgruppe für Intensiv- und Infektionsneurologie, Universitätsklinik für Neurologie, Innsbruck.
Wien Klin Wochenschr. 1993;105(18):527-9.
Within a span of 18 months 4 patients (2 men, 2 women) were admitted with generalized tetanus to our neurological intensive care unit. The "period of onset" ranged from 2 to 14 days. All patients needed artificial ventilation over 17 to 38 days. The clinical course was complicated by gram-negative pneumonia in 3 of the 4 patients. Time of hospitalization ranged between 35 and 60 days. One patient had never been immunized against tetanus. The other 3 had not received a booster dose for over 10 years. All 4 patients survived, 3 of them without sequelae.
