Respiratory diphtheria in an asylum seeker from Afghanistan arriving to Finland via Sweden, December 2015.

In December 2015, an asylum seeker originating from Afghanistan was diagnosed with respiratory diphtheria in Finland. He arrived in Finland from Sweden where he had already been clinically suspected and tested for diphtheria. Corynebacterium diphtheriae was confirmed in Sweden and shown to be genotypically and phenotypically toxigenic. The event highlights the importance of early case detection, rapid communication within the country and internationally as well as preparedness plans of diphtheria antitoxin availability.

• Publication year

  2016

• Venue

  Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

• Publication date

  2016-01-14

• Fields of study

  Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2016.21.2.30105PMID 26840007
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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