Bangladesh Medical Research Council (BMRC)
Two hundred and ten cases of diphtheria of both sexes and all ages with seasonal incidence and area prevalences were studied. Therapeutic trial of corticosteroid hormone was done in all cases of diphtheria studied. It was found
that cortisone along with conventional drug therapy, the death rate came down to 68%. Age incidence of our cases bad similar pattern ith current litera tures where as we observed some deviation in sex and…