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Euro Surveill. Imported laryngeal and cutaneous diphtheria in tourists returning from western Africa to Sweden, March 2012
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E Lindhusen-Lindh? (
)<SUP>1</SUP>, L Dotevall<SUP>1</SUP>, M Berglund<SUP>2</SUP>
Citation style for this article: Lindhusen-Lindh? E, Dotevall L, Berglund M. Imported laryngeal and cutaneous diphtheria in tourists returning from western Africa to Sweden, March 2012. Euro Surveill. 2012;17(23):pii=20189. Available online: http://www.eurosurveillance.org/View...rticleId=20189
Date of submission: 25 May 2012 <HR>In March 2012 a 68-year-old woman was diagnosed with laryngeal diphtheria in a hospital in V?stra G?taland 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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Eurosurveillance, Volume 17, Issue 23, 07 June 2012
Rapid communications
Imported laryngeal and cutaneous diphtheria in tourists returning from western Africa to Sweden, March 2012
Rapid communications
Imported laryngeal and cutaneous diphtheria in tourists returning from western Africa to Sweden, March 2012
E Lindhusen-Lindh? (
- Department for Communicable Disease and Control, V?stra G?taland Region, Sweden
- Departement for ENT Diseases, Trollh?ttan, V?stra G?taland Region, Sweden
Citation style for this article: Lindhusen-Lindh? E, Dotevall L, Berglund M. Imported laryngeal and cutaneous diphtheria in tourists returning from western Africa to Sweden, March 2012. Euro Surveill. 2012;17(23):pii=20189. Available online: http://www.eurosurveillance.org/View...rticleId=20189
Date of submission: 25 May 2012 <HR>In March 2012 a 68-year-old woman was diagnosed with laryngeal diphtheria in a hospital in V?stra G?taland 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.