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. 2023 Aug 21;120(33-34):557-558.
doi: 10.3238/arztebl.m2023.0091.

Clustering of Diphtheria Cases in Refugees That Arrived in Germany in 2022

Andreas Sing, Franziska Badenschier, Alexandra Dangel, Annika Sprenger, Bernhard Hobmaier, Wiebe Külper-Schiek, Henrieke Prins, Mario Martin-Sanchez, Christiane Wagner-Wiening, Anja Berger

Clustering of Diphtheria Cases in Refugees That Arrived in Germany in 2022

Andreas Sing et al. Dtsch Arztebl Int. .
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Figure 1:
Cutaneous diphtheria (Reprinted by courtesy of the Health Department of Sigmaringen, Sigmaringen, Germany)
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Figure 2:
Samples received at the German National Consiliary Laboratory on Diphtheria (NCLD), 2009–2022. Number of samples with detection of tox + Corynebacterium diphtheriae strains at the NCLD in 2022. NCLD, German National Consiliary Laboratory on Diphtheria; tox-, gene for toxin production is missing; tox+, gene for toxin production is present
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