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Two cases of imported respiratory diphtheria in Edinburgh, Scotland, October 2019

We report two cases of respiratory toxigenic Corynebacterium diphtheriae infection in fully vaccinated UK born adults following travel to Tunisia in October 2019. Both patients were successfully treated with antibiotics and neither received diphtheria antitoxin. Contact tracing was performed followi...

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Autores principales: Li, Lucy, Ross, Daniella, Hill, Katherine, Clifford, Sarah, Wellington, Louise, Sumpter, Colin, Gadsby, Naomi J., Crane, Jennifer, Macsween, Karen F., Hopkins, Katie L., Fry, Norman K., Koch, Oliver, Stevenson, Janet
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7374812/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32408918
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0950268820001028