Outbreak of Corynebacterium diphtheriae among asylum seekers in Belgium in 2022: operational challenges and lessons learnt

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

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Outbreak of imported diphtheria with Corynebacterium diphtheriae among migrants arriving in Germany, 2022

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Epidemiological, clinical, and public health response characteristics of a large outbreak of diphtheria among the Rohingya population in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, 2017 to 2019: A retrospective study

(2021) Jonathan A. Polonsky et al.   PLOS MEDICINE

Genomic epidemiology and strain taxonomy of Corynebacterium diphtheriae

(2021) Julien Guglielmini et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Population genomics and antimicrobial resistance in Corynebacterium diphtheriae

(2020) Melanie Hennart et al.   Genome Medicine

Clinical and Epidemiological Aspects of Diphtheria:A Systematic Review and Pooled Analysis

(2019) Shaun A Truelove et al.   CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES

GrapeTree: visualization of core genomic relationships among 100,000 bacterial pathogens

(2018) Zhemin Zhou et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Fatal diphtheria myocarditis in a 3-year-old girl—related to late availability and administration of antitoxin?

(2017) Karlijn Van Damme et al.   Paediatrics and International Child Health

Outbreak investigation for toxigenic Corynebacterium diphtheriae wound infections in refugees from Northeast Africa and Syria in Switzerland and Germany by whole genome sequencing

(2016) D.M. Meinel et al.   CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTION

Tetanus and diphtheria immunity in refugees in Europe in 2015

(2016) Alexandra Jablonka et al.   INFECTION