Euro Surveill. Imported laryngeal and cutaneous diphtheria in tourists returning from western Africa to Sweden, March 2012

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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

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E Lindhusen-Lindh? ()<SUP>1</SUP>, L Dotevall<SUP>1</SUP>, M Berglund<SUP>2</SUP>

1. Department for Communicable Disease and Control, V?stra G?taland Region, Sweden
2. Departement for ENT Diseases, Trollh?ttan, V?stra G?taland Region, Sweden

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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)ii=20189. Available online: http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=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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