Increase in cases of Diphtheria in Europe particularly among asylum-seekers

• Egile Nagusiak: Akilan Ramani Dhanasekran (Egilea), Ashok Periasamy (Egilea), Karthikeyan Balakrishnan (Egilea), Kulasekar Chandran (Egilea)
• Formatua: Liburua
• Argitaratua: University of New South Wales, 2023-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Gaiak: article
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Diphtheria is a severe infection, with a high mortality rate and affects the upper respiratory tract. Transmission is by direct contact/sneezing/coughing and may lead to myocarditis, peripheral neuropathy, pneumonia or respiratory failure. This watching brief aims to describe the epidemiology of the...