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Diphtheria [PDF]

Nature Reviews Disease Primers, 2019
Diphtheria is a potentially fatal infection mostly caused by toxigenic Corynebacterium diphtheriae strains and occasionally by toxigenic C. ulcerans and C. pseudotuberculosis strains. Diphtheria is generally an acute respiratory infection, characterized by the formation of a pseudomembrane in the throat, but cutaneous infections are possible.
Sharma, Naresh Chand, Efstratiou, Androulla, Mokrousov, Igor, Mutreja, Ankur, Das, Bhabatosh, Ramamurthy, Thandavarayan   +5 more
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Rare manifestations of cutaneous diphtheria: a case report [PDF]

Journal of Medical Case Reports
Background This case report presents an exceptionally rare and atypical presentation of diphtheria in a 17-year-old female of Hausa ethnicity residing in an area with an elevated incidence within Kano State, Nigeria.
Salma Ali Suwaid, Aliyu Mustapha, Monika Ried, Ruqayyah Ali Muhammad, Aminu Shehu Liman, Salma Yusuf   +5 more
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Risk factors of diphtheria outbreak in damt district of Al Dhalea Governorate, 2023 -Yemen: a case–control study [PDF]

BMC Infectious Diseases
Background In Yemen, diphtheria has become an important health problem since 2017 when diphtheria re-emergence as a consequence of war and the collapse of the health system.
Sameer Shedaiwah, Hamood Alsharabi, Labiba Anam, Mohammed Abdullah Al Amad   +3 more
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Seroprevalence of anti-diphtheria toxoid antibody and implications for vaccination policy in Vietnam’s South-central coast: a cross-sectional study [PDF]

BMC Infectious Diseases
Background Diphtheria is a re-emerging infectious disease and public health concern worldwide and in Vietnam with increasing cases in recent years. This study aimed to assess the anti-diphtheria toxoid antibodies status in Khanh Hoa Province and identify
Hoang Thieu Le, Thai Hung Do, The Anh Dao, Tien Thanh Hoang, Bao Trieu Nguyen, Thuy Lien Le, Dinh Luong Nguyen, Lay-Myint Yoshida, Xuan Huy Le, Hong Quan Le, That Toan Ton, Min Jin Ha   +11 more
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DIPHTHERIA AND PSEUDO-DIPHTHERIA. [PDF]

The Lancet, 1894
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Park, W.-M. Hallock, Beebe, Alfred L.
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Determination of Diphtheria Toxin in Bacterial Cultures by Enzyme Immunoassay

Diagnostics, 2022
Since diphtheria toxin (DT) is the main virulence factor of Corynebacterium diphtheriae and C. ulcerans, the detection of DT in corynebacterial cultures is of utmost importance in the laboratory diagnosis of diphtheria.
Maria A. Simonova, Vyacheslav G. Melnikov, Olga E. Lakhtina, Ravilya L. Komaleva, Anja Berger, Andreas Sing, Sergey K. Zavriev   +6 more
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Describing the burden of diphtheria in Canada from 2006 to 2017, using hospital administrative data and reportable disease data

Canada Communicable Disease Report, 2021
Background: Canada has maintained a low incidence of toxigenic diphtheria since the 1990s, supported by continued commitment to publicly funded vaccination programs.
Dolly Lin, Brigitte Ho Mi Fane, Susan G Squires, Catherine Dickson   +3 more
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IMMUNOBIOLOGY OF DIPHTHERIA. RECENT APPROACHES FOR THE PREVENTION, DIAGNOSIS, AND TREATMENT OF DISEASE [PDF]

Biotechnologia Acta, 2013
Diphtheria is a highly contagious life-threatening disease caused by the toxi genic strains of Corynebacterium diphtheria, which are transformed by a bacteriophage carrying the toxin gene.
D. V. Kolybo, A. A. Labyntsev, S. I. Romaniuk, A. A Kaberniuk, O. M. Oliinyk, N. V. Korotkevich, S. V. Komisarenko   +6 more
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Assay of Diphtheria Vaccine Potency by Intradermal Challenge Test

Эпидемиология и вакцинопрофилактика, 2023
Relevance. Modern identifying potency (immunogenicity) of diphtheria toxoid tests are based on determining immunized animals resistance for administration challenge toxin or evaluation of protective antibodies level in serum.
E. I. Komarovskaya, О. V. Perelygyna
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Parental knowledge, attitude, and behavioral factors in immunization response following a diphtheria outbreak in children in 2018-2019

Paediatrica Indonesiana, 2020
Background A diphtheria outbreak was declared at the end of 2017. The outbreak response immunization (ORI) was a key Indonesian government strategy to control diphtheria in three outbreak areas.
Nabila Arfimita, Edward Surjono
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