title: [The clinical manifestations, diagnosis and treatment of diphtheria in adults].
abstract: Diphtheria morbidity among adult population of Moscow is growing. The tests of different modes and schemes of heterogeneous antidiphtheria serum administration have found out that the highest efficacy of serotherapy was achieved with a single intravenous dose. Another treatment of diphtheria is hemosorption. Widely used in present-day clinical practice hemosorbents provide adequate elimination of the toxin from plasma. The authors analyse the present situation in clinical symptoms, complications, lethality of diphtheria basing on the data provided by S. P. Botkin's Hospital.
authors.forename: V N
authors.initials: VN
authors.lastname: Nikiforov
authors.forename: M Kh
authors.initials: MKh
authors.lastname: Tur'ianov
authors.forename: N M
authors.initials: NM
authors.lastname: Beliaeva
authors.forename: R V
authors.initials: RV
authors.lastname: Strakhov
authors.forename: L A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Nikitina
authors.forename: Sh A
authors.initials: ShA
authors.lastname: Tashpulatov
authors.forename: E K
authors.initials: EK
authors.lastname: Rusakova
authors.forename: T P
authors.initials: TP
authors.lastname: Gotvianskaia
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000907:Antibodies, Bacterial / Q000097:blood; D003353:Corynebacterium diphtheriae / Q000276:immunology; D004165:Diphtheria / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000276:immunology / Q000628:therapy*; D004166:Diphtheria Antitoxin / Q000008:administration & dosage; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009031:Moscow / Q000453:epidemiology; D016036:Seroepidemiologic Studies; D016060:Sorption Detoxification / Q000379:methods; D013997:Time Factors; D014505:Urban Population / Q000706:statistics & numerical data
chemical_list: D000907:Antibodies, Bacterial; D004166:Diphtheria Antitoxin
vernacular_title: Klinicheskie proiavleniia, diagnostika i lechenie difterii u vzroslykh.