What's the difference between diphtheria and diphtheritis?
Diphtheria
Definition:
(n.) A very dangerous contagious disease in which the air passages, and especially the throat, become coated with a false membrane, produced by the solidification of an inflammatory exudation. Cf. Group.
Example Sentences:
(1) The receptor-mediated internalization and degradation of radiolabeled diphtheria toxin by cultured monkey kidney cells was studied.
(2) Efforts made to measure the successful immunologic conquest of diphtheria are compared and contrasted with efforts being made to conquer diseases of allergic origin.
(3) Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) tests were developed to detect IgG antibodies to diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis in a healthy New Zealand population.
(4) A group of alcoholics constituted the reservoir of Corynebacterium diphtheriae.
(5) The ultrastructural features of demyelination in viral leukoencephalomyelitis of goats were compared with those described for demyelination that occurs in multiple sclerosis, experimental allergic encephalomyelitis, canine distemper encephalomyelitis, and that produced by diphtheria toxin.
(6) This unique physiological situation was created by crossing IGF-I Tg mice to GH-deficient, dwarf mice in whom somatotrophs were genetically ablated by the expression of a diphtheria toxin transgene in the somatotrophs.
(7) Data are presented to show that the adoption of such methods would increase the information available from each animal and so reduce the number of animals required for the satisfactory standardization of diphtheria and tetanus vaccines.
(8) Since the importation of toxin-producing diphtheria bacteria is unavoidable and may occur at all times, universal active immunisation in childhood, as well as timely revaccination of adolescents and adults, are mandatory prophylactic measures to prevent new epidemics.
(9) In this paper we describe a new assay for diphtheria toxin in bacterial cultures, based on a sandwich-dot immunobinding method.
(10) A sample of 643 healthy subjects from central Italy aged 20 to 80, were screened for diphtheria antitoxin.
(11) Diphtheria toxoid, which is an important vaccine in the expanded program of immunization (EPI) in the developing countries, was microencapsulated using poly(D,L,-lactide) of 49,000 molecular weight and the in-water drying technique.
(12) A cohort of close to 70 children born in 1967-68 was followed for estimations of serum antitoxin levels against diphtheria.
(13) The chimeric protein consists of the V alpha region of the T-cell receptor of a diphtheria toxoid-specific human T-cell clone fused to a human immunoglobulin kappa light chain constant (C) region.
(14) An account is given of two separate outbreaks of diphtheria amongst mentally subnormal patients and nursing staff.
(15) It was concluded that the diphtheria toxoids in the two doses of 2 Lf and 6.25 Lf did not induce a satisfactory immune response.
(16) Healthy 17- to 24-month-old children, previously immunized with three doses of whole-cell diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis (DTP) vaccine, were enrolled in a multi-center double-blind, randomized study comparing a DTP vaccine with an acellular pertussis-component (APDT) and a conventional whole-cell pertussis-component DTP vaccine.
(17) Not one of the 12 patients had been satisfactorily immunized by active inoculation with diphtheria toxoid.
(18) In consideration of new findings about the serum antibody level to diphtheria toxin in the population of the GDR the speciality in this case is described.
(19) Two prospective clinical trials of Hib polyribosyl ribitol phosphate conjugated with diphtheria toxoid (PRP-D) were identified.
(20) We studied the effect of carnitine supplementation in patients with diphtheria.
Diphtheritis
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) From the morphological viewpoints, the lesion was a disease of the large intestine characterized by a pseudomembranous, croupous, or even diphtheric inflammation of the intestine and by a conspicuously small pyogenic component in the inflammatory exudate in propria mucosae.
(2) Hepatitis and diphtheric peptides were selected whereas the streptococcal peptide was rejected although it can experimentally contain a T epitope.
(3) This human monoclonal antibody may have a potential in the immunotherapy of diphtheric disease.
(4) Outbred guinea-pigs immunized with polyvalent vaccine containing streptococcal, diphtheric, P. knowlesi and hepatitis peptides raised high specific antibody response against the four specificities.
(5) This study deals with the ELISA for immunoglobulin G antibodies against diphtheric toxin in healthy children in kindergartens to determine the immunity status.
(6) The diagnosis of diphtheric myocarditis was done in clinical basis.
(7) The clinical manifestations of diphtheric croup may be unpronounced in such cases and be masked by other severe disease symptoms.
(8) In 33 human sera the determination of diphtheric antitoxic antibodies was performed in a double blind test using Jensen's method, the method of tissue cultures and the haemagglutination method.
(9) In the current study we analyzed clinical evolution and therapeutic aspects of malignant diphtheric myocarditis.
(10) Cardiac rhythm disturbances in diphtheric myocarditis are associated with high probability of necessity of temporary pacemaker and high mortality.
(11) Although the immunization program for children in Indonesia follows the WHO recommendation, in some areas high diphtheric morbidity rates still occur for children under 5 years of age.