Transmission of toxigenic Corynebacterium diphtheriae by a fully immunised resident returning from a visit to West Africa, United Kingdom, 2017

In early 2017, a United Kingdom (UK)-born person in their 20s presented with a skin ulcer on the foot 3 weeks after returning from Ghana. The patient had last received a diphtheria-containing vaccine in 2013, completing the recommended course. MALDI-TOF of a cutaneous swab identified Corynebacterium...

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Autores principales: Edwards, David, Kent, Dianne, Lester, Caroline, Brown, Colin Stewart, Murphy, Michael E., Brown, Nicholas M., Sule, Olajumoke, Itani, Alexandra, Chand, Meera, Trindall, Amy, Pearson, Callum, Roddick, Iain, Fry, Norman K., Hoffmann, Jorg, Iyanger, Nalini, Kemp, Laurence, White, Joanne, Javid, Babak, Ramsay, Isobel D., Zenner, Dominik, Ahmed, Aliko, Amirthalingam, Gayatri, Salimee, Sultan, Litt, David, Reacher, Mark
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/PMC6169202/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30280689
http://dx.doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2018.23.39.1700681

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