IMPORTED LARYNGEAL AND CUTANEOUS DIPHTHERIA IN TOURISTS RETURNING FROM WESTERN AFRICA TO SWEDEN, MARCH 2012
(Another reason to check your shots before traveling. Related: People still get diphtheria?)
Eurosurveillance, Volume 17, Issue 23, 07 June 2012
IMPORTED LARYNGEAL AND CUTANEOUS DIPHTHERIA IN TOURISTS RETURNING FROM WESTERN AFRICA TO SWEDEN, MARCH 2012
E Lindhusen-Lindhé ()1, L Dotevall1, M Berglund2 Department for Communicable Disease and Control, Västra Götaland Region, Sweden Departement for ENT Diseases, Trollhättan, Västra Götaland Region, Sweden Citation style for this article: Lindhusen-Lindhé E, Dotevall L, Berglund M.
Date of submission: 25 May 2012
In March 2012 a 68-year-old woman was diagnosed with laryngeal diphtheria in a hospital in Västra Götaland Region, Sweden. Six days before symptom onset she had returned from a trip to western Africa where she had travelled accompanied by her husband. During the investigation, the 76-year-old husband was diagnosed with cutaneous diphtheria. Both patients were incompletely vaccinated against diphtheria…
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