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Feb 28, 2017 · A century ago, Emil von Behring passed away. He was the first to be honored by the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1901 for the successful therapy of diphtheria and tetanus, which he had developed from the bench to the bed. He also contributed to the foundation of immunology, since his therapy was based on passive immunization with specific antisera.
N Y. (what is this?) (verify) Tetanus vaccine, also known as tetanus toxoid ( TT ), is a toxoid vaccine used to prevent tetanus. [2] During childhood, five doses are recommended, with a sixth given during adolescence. [2] After three doses, almost everyone is initially immune, [2] but additional doses every ten years are recommended to maintain ...
Apr 10, 2017 · Emil von Behring (1854–1917) discovered passive immunization as an effective treatment for diphtheria and tetanus. Moreover, he brought this discovery from bench to bedside, and his serum ...
- Stefan H. E. Kaufmann
- Kaufmann@mpiib-berlin.mpg.de
- 2017
Apr 1, 2007 · The introduction of the first serum therapies for the treatment of diphtheria and tetanus in the mid-1890s constitutes an important development in the history of medicine. The technique—pioneered by Emil Behring (1854–1917)—involved the injection of blood-serum extracted from animals after they had been rendered immune to the disease in ...
- Jonathan Simon
- 2007
Dec 3, 2001 · The Development of the Diphtheria-Therapeutic-Serum. Behring, who in the early 1890s became an assistant at the Institute for Infectious Diseases, headed by Robert Koch, started his studies with experiments on the development of a therapeutic serum. In 1890, together with his university friend Erich Wernicke, he had managed to develop the first ...
Feb 28, 2017 · A century ago, Emil von Behring passed away. He was the first to be honored by the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1901 for the successful therapy of diphtheria and tetanus, which he had developed ...
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Portrait of Emil von Behring (1854-1917), a German physiologist who worked to prove the possibility of transferring immunity against the toxins of tetanus and Diptheria. Behring won the 1901 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for the development of serum therapies. The illustration is part of a chapter highlighting work made possible following the breakthroughs in vaccination by Louis...
