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Whole genome sequencing suggests transmission of Corynebacterium diphtheriae-caused cutaneous diphtheria in two siblings, Germany, 2018

In September 2018, a child who had returned from Somalia to Germany presented with cutaneous diphtheria by toxigenic Corynebacterium diphtheriae biovar mitis. The child’s sibling had superinfected insect bites harbouring also toxigenic C. diphtheriae. Next generation sequencing (NGS) revealed the sa...

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Autores principales: Berger, Anja, Dangel, Alexandra, Schober, Tilmann, Schmidbauer, Birgit, Konrad, Regina, Marosevic, Durdica, Schubert, Sören, Hörmansdorfer, Stefan, Ackermann, Nikolaus, Hübner, Johannes, Sing, Andreas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6337054/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30646974
http://dx.doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2019.24.2.1800683