Ongoing toxin-positive diphtheria outbreaks in a federal asylum centre in Switzerland, analysis July to September 2022

Two diphtheria outbreaks occurred in a Swiss asylum center from July to October 2022, one is still ongoing. Outbreaks mainly involved minors and included six symptomatic respiratory diphtheria cases requiring antitoxin. Phylogenomic analyses showed evidence of imported and local transmissions of tox...

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Autores principales: Kofler, Jacob, Ramette, Alban, Iseli, Patricia, Stauber, Lea, Fichtner, Jens, Droz, Sara, Zihler Berner, Annina, Meier, Anna Bettina, Begert, Michelle, Negri, Sabine, Jachmann, Anne, Keller, Peter Michael, Staehelin, Cornelia, Grützmacher, Barbara
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) 2022
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Rapid Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9635023/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36330823
http://dx.doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2022.27.44.2200811
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author Kofler, Jacob
Ramette, Alban
Iseli, Patricia
Stauber, Lea
Fichtner, Jens
Droz, Sara
Zihler Berner, Annina
Meier, Anna Bettina
Begert, Michelle
Negri, Sabine
Jachmann, Anne
Keller, Peter Michael
Staehelin, Cornelia
Grützmacher, Barbara
author_facet Kofler, Jacob
Ramette, Alban
Iseli, Patricia
Stauber, Lea
Fichtner, Jens
Droz, Sara
Zihler Berner, Annina
Meier, Anna Bettina
Begert, Michelle
Negri, Sabine
Jachmann, Anne
Keller, Peter Michael
Staehelin, Cornelia
Grützmacher, Barbara
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description Two diphtheria outbreaks occurred in a Swiss asylum center from July to October 2022, one is still ongoing. Outbreaks mainly involved minors and included six symptomatic respiratory diphtheria cases requiring antitoxin. Phylogenomic analyses showed evidence of imported and local transmissions of toxigenic strains in respiratory and skin lesion samples. Given the number of cases (n = 20) and the large genetic diversity accumulating in one centre, increased awareness and changes in public health measures are required to prevent and control diphtheria outbreaks.
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spelling pubmed-96350232022-11-07 Ongoing toxin-positive diphtheria outbreaks in a federal asylum centre in Switzerland, analysis July to September 2022 Kofler, Jacob Ramette, Alban Iseli, Patricia Stauber, Lea Fichtner, Jens Droz, Sara Zihler Berner, Annina Meier, Anna Bettina Begert, Michelle Negri, Sabine Jachmann, Anne Keller, Peter Michael Staehelin, Cornelia Grützmacher, Barbara Euro Surveill Rapid Communication Two diphtheria outbreaks occurred in a Swiss asylum center from July to October 2022, one is still ongoing. Outbreaks mainly involved minors and included six symptomatic respiratory diphtheria cases requiring antitoxin. Phylogenomic analyses showed evidence of imported and local transmissions of toxigenic strains in respiratory and skin lesion samples. Given the number of cases (n = 20) and the large genetic diversity accumulating in one centre, increased awareness and changes in public health measures are required to prevent and control diphtheria outbreaks. European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) 2022-11-03 /pmc/articles/PMC9635023/ /pubmed/36330823 http://dx.doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2022.27.44.2200811 Text en This article is copyright of the authors or their affiliated institutions, 2022. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.
spellingShingle Rapid Communication
Kofler, Jacob
Ramette, Alban
Iseli, Patricia
Stauber, Lea
Fichtner, Jens
Droz, Sara
Zihler Berner, Annina
Meier, Anna Bettina
Begert, Michelle
Negri, Sabine
Jachmann, Anne
Keller, Peter Michael
Staehelin, Cornelia
Grützmacher, Barbara
Ongoing toxin-positive diphtheria outbreaks in a federal asylum centre in Switzerland, analysis July to September 2022
title Ongoing toxin-positive diphtheria outbreaks in a federal asylum centre in Switzerland, analysis July to September 2022
title_full Ongoing toxin-positive diphtheria outbreaks in a federal asylum centre in Switzerland, analysis July to September 2022
title_fullStr Ongoing toxin-positive diphtheria outbreaks in a federal asylum centre in Switzerland, analysis July to September 2022
title_full_unstemmed Ongoing toxin-positive diphtheria outbreaks in a federal asylum centre in Switzerland, analysis July to September 2022
title_short Ongoing toxin-positive diphtheria outbreaks in a federal asylum centre in Switzerland, analysis July to September 2022
title_sort ongoing toxin-positive diphtheria outbreaks in a federal asylum centre in switzerland, analysis july to september 2022
topic Rapid Communication
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9635023/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36330823
http://dx.doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2022.27.44.2200811
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