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Rare manifestations of cutaneous diphtheria: a case report. [PDF]

J Med Case Rep
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.
Suwaid SA, Mustapha A, Ried M, Muhammad RA, Liman AS, Yusuf S.   +5 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Risk factors of diphtheria outbreak in damt district of Al Dhalea Governorate, 2023 -Yemen: a case-control study. [PDF]

BMC Infect Dis
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.
Shedaiwah S, Alsharabi H, Anam L, Al Amad MA.   +3 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Photodynamic Inactivation Mediated by Endogenous Porphyrins of <i>Corynebacterium diphtheriae</i> in Planktonic and Biofilm Forms. [PDF]

ACS Omega
Alves GB, Calderari MRDCM, Fonseca END, Sant'anna LO, Santos LSD, Mattos-Guaraldi AL.   +5 more
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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
doaj   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source

Sentiment Analysis and Text Analysis of the Public Discourse on Twitter about COVID-19 and MPox [PDF]

, 2023
Mining and analysis of the big data of Twitter conversations have been of significant interest to the scientific community in the fields of healthcare, epidemiology, big data, data science, computer science, and their related areas, as can be seen from several works in the last few years that focused on sentiment analysis and other forms of text ...
arxiv   +1 more source

BIOLOGICAL PROPERTIES AND MEDICAL APPLICATION OF DIPHTHERIA TOXIN DERIVATIVES [PDF]

Biotechnologia Acta, 2018
The aim of the review was to analyze the literature data related to the application of a variety of diphtheria toxin derivatives. Although studies of the diphtheria toxin interaction with sensitive and resistant mammalian cells have been held for a ...
Manoilov K.Y.
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