Diphtheria in adults: Clinical presentation, diagnosis and treatment

Diphtheria mobidity among adult population of Moscow is growing. The tests of different modes and schemes of heterogenous antidiphtheria serum administrationon 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.