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Case Reports
. 2019 Sep;49(6):463-466.
doi: 10.1016/j.medmal.2018.12.001. Epub 2018 Dec 21.

Re-emergence of Corynebacterium diphtheriae

C Scheifer  1 , C Rolland-Debord  2 , E Badell  3 , F Reibel  4 , A Aubry  5 , A Perignon  6 , O Patey  7 , S Brisse  8 , E Caumes  9
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Re-emergence of Corynebacterium diphtheriae

C Scheifer et al. Med Mal Infect. 2019 Sep.

Abstract

Background: Diphtheria is re-emerging in Europe. A total of 36 cases were reported in Europe in 2015 versus 53 cases between 2000 and 2009.

Patients: We report two cases of Corynebacterium diphtheriae infection in a French hospital in 2016: a cutaneous infection with negative toxin testing in a French traveller, and a respiratory diphtheria carriage with positive toxin testing in an Afghan refugee diagnosed with pulmonary tuberculosis. The vaccination history of the Afghan patient could not be retrieved.

Keywords: Corynebacterium diphtheriae; Migrants; Transients and migrants; Travellers; Voyageurs.

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