A case of respiratory toxigenic diphtheria: contact tracing results and considerations following a 30-year disease-free interval, Catalonia, Spain, 2015

In May 2015, following a 30-year diphtheria-free interval in Catalonia, an unvaccinated 6-year-old child was diagnosed with diphtheria caused by toxigenic Corynebacterium diphtheriae. After a difficult search for equine-derived diphtheria antitoxin (DAT), the child received the DAT 4 days later but...

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Autores principales: Jané, Mireia, Vidal, Maria José, Camps, Neus, Campins, Magda, Martínez, Ana, Balcells, Joan, Martin-Gomez, Maria Teresa, Bassets, Gloria, Herrera-León, Silvia, Foguet, Anton, Maresma, Mar, Follia, Nuria, Uriona, Sonia, Pumarola, Tomàs
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) 2018
Materias:
Surveillance and Outbreak Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5883453/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29616610
http://dx.doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2018.23.13.17-00183

Internet

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5883453/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29616610
http://dx.doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2018.23.13.17-00183

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