Circumcision and neonatal tetanus: disclosure of risk and its reduction by topical antibiotics | Zendy

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Circumcision and neonatal tetanus: disclosure of risk and its reduction by topical antibiotics

Author(s) -

John V. Bennett,

Courtney Breen,

HectorP Traverso,

S.Bano Agha,

Jaume Macià,

J. Boring

Publication year - 1999

Publication title -

international journal of epidemiology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.406

H-Index - 208

eISSN - 1464-3685

pISSN - 0300-5771

DOI - 10.1093/ije/28.2.263

Subject(s) - medicine , number needed to treat , odds ratio , antibiotics , population , neonatal tetanus , relative risk , surgery , confidence interval , obstetrics , health services , environmental health , microbiology and biotechnology , biology

Previous case-control studies have paradoxically suggested that circumcisions protect against neonatal tetanus (NNT), but these observations have not been adjusted for differences in the length of survival of cases and controls.

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