[Experience with the abolition of use of tetanus antiserum following trauma].

For the first time in the USSR, as a result of all-around analysis of the problems connected with tetanus prophylaxis under conditions of the Arkhangelsk region the authors conducted a trial on the suspension of the use of antitetanus serum in trauma. Besides the elimination of the population allergization, replacement of the antitetanus serum with the toxioid facilitated the emergency prophylaxis of tetanus, created prerequisites for the immunity maintenance at the protective level in the population, and served as the necessary stage along the route of further improvement of emergency prophylaxis and elimination of tetanus.