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Effectiveness of Prenatal Tetanus, Diphtheria, and Acellular Pertussis Vaccination on Pertussis Severity in Infants

Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2017
Kathleen H Harriman
exaly   +2 more sources

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

Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin, 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.
Jacob Kofler, A. Ramette, P. Iseli, Lea Stauber, Jens Fichtner, S. Droz, Annina Zihler Berner, Anna Bettina Meier, Michelle Begert, Sabine Negri, Anne Jachmann, P. Keller, C. Staehelin, Barbara Grützmacher   +13 more
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New Corynebacterium Species with the Potential to Produce Diphtheria Toxin

Pathogens, 2022
Only three Corynebacterium species are known to produce a lethal exotoxin called diphtheria toxin. These are C. diphtheriae, C. ulcerans and C. pseudotuberculosis.
Marta Prygiel, M. Polak, E. Mosiej, Karol Wdowiak, Kamila Formińska, A. Zasada   +5 more
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Mathematical Assessment of the Impact of the Imperfect Vaccination on Diphtheria Transmission Dynamics

Symmetry, 2022
Diphtheria is a vaccine-preventable disease in which the outbreaks will not occur if a high enough proportion of individuals in a population are immune. Recent reports reveal that vaccinated individuals with low coverage levels of immunity may be at risk
Siwaphorn Kanchanarat, S. Chinviriyasit, W. Chinviriyasit   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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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Diphtheria in the WHO European Region, 2010 to 2019

Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin, 2022
Background Diphtheria is uncommon in the World Health Organization (WHO) European Region. Nevertheless, sporadic cases, sometimes fatal, continue to be reported.
M. Muscat, B. Gebrie, A. Efstratiou, Siddhartha S Datta, D. Daniels   +4 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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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

PLoS Medicine, 2021
Background Unrest in Myanmar in August 2017 resulted in the movement of over 700,000 Rohingya refugees to overcrowded camps in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. A large outbreak of diphtheria subsequently began in this population.
J. Polonsky, M. Ivey, Khadimul Anam Mazhar, Z. Rahman, O. le Polain de Waroux, B. Karo, K. Jalava, S. Vong, A. Baidjoe, Janet Diaz, F. Finger, Z. H. Habib, C. E. Halder, C. Haskew, L. Kaiser, Ali S Khan, L. Sangal, T. Shirin, Q. Zaki, A. Salam, Kate White   +20 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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The Effect of Tetanus-Diphtheria-Acellular-Pertussis Immunization During Pregnancy on Infant Antibody Responses: Individual-Participant Data Meta-Analysis

Frontiers in Immunology, 2021
Background Immunization with tetanus-diphtheria-acellular pertussis (Tdap) vaccine in pregnancy is increasingly recommended. We determined the effect of Tdap immunization in pregnancy on infants’ vaccine responses.
B. Abu-Raya, K. Maertens, F. Muñoz, Petra Zimmermann, N. Curtis, S. Halperin, N. Rots, D. Barug, B. Holder, B. Kampmann, E. Leuridan, M. Sadarangani   +11 more
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