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A patient with respiratory toxigenic diphtheria in Greece after more than 30 years

The introduction of treatment and systematic vaccination has significantly reduced diphtheria mortality; however, toxigenic strains continue to circulate worldwide. The emergence of an indigenous diphtheria case with fatal outcome in Greece, after 30 years, raised challenges for laboratory confirmat...

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Autores principales: Georgakopoulou, T., Tryfinopoulou, K., Doudoulakakis, A., Nikolaou, F., Magaziotou, I., Flountzi, A., Fry, N. K., Litt, D. J, Damala, M., Spiliopoulou, I., Liatsi-Douvitsa, E., Lebessi, E., Panayiotakopoulos, G., Tsolia, M., Saroglou, G., Theodoridou, M., Tsiodras, S., Efstratiou, A.
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/PMC7770372/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33109284
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0950268820002605