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ArticleEmerging infectious diseases2025

Toxigenic Corynebacterium diphtheriae Infections in Low-Risk Patients, Switzerland, 2023.

Pascal Urwyler, Daniel Goldenberger, Kerstin Grosheintz, Rahel Tarnutzer, Maike Markstein, Celine Sucker, Anna-Maria Balestra, Lukas Merki, Michelle Baumann, Nicolas Gürtler and 8 more

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Article in Emerging infectious diseases, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Two diphtheria sub-clusters with autochthonous cases in Germany and Poland within aEuro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin · 2025
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  2. Autochthonous outbreak of respiratory diphtheria caused byEuro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

18 authors.

Pascal Urwyler
Daniel Goldenberger
Kerstin Grosheintz
Rahel Tarnutzer
Maike Markstein
Celine Sucker
Anna-Maria Balestra
Lukas Merki
Michelle Baumann
Nicolas Gürtler
Aurélien Emmanuel Martinez
Matthias von Rotz
Branislav Ivan
Claudia Lang
Pascal Schläepfer
Peter M Keller
Eva Wuerfel
Sarah Tschudin-Sutter

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We report a cluster of infections with genetically related toxigenic Corynebacterium diphtheriae linked to an outbreak among asylum seekers in Switzerland that subsequently affected patients without known exposure. This discovery highlights the importance of rapid, interdisciplinary outbreak investigations and regular vaccination status assessment, especially in elderly populations with waning immunity.

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Corynebacterium diphtheriaeDiphtheriaDisease OutbreaksAdolescentAdultAgedFemaleHistory, 21st CenturyHumansMaleMiddle AgedRefugeesSwitzerlandYoung AdultbacteriaCorynebacterium diphtheriaediphtheriaoutbreak investigationpublic healthSwitzerland

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PMID39714413
PMCPMC11682798

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