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ArticleEuro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin2025

Autochthonous outbreak of respiratory diphtheria caused by

Anja Berger, Alexandra Dangel, Katja Bengs, Sandra Schlotmann, Peter Thomaßen, Claudia Maday, Carmen Rubach, Inas Abdelgawad, Gabriele Namaschk, Lena Schneider and 5 more

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Article in Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Diphtheria outbreak, Northern Territory of Australia, 2025 to 2026.Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin · 2026
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  3. 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
    Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

15 authors.

Anja BergerNational Consiliary Laboratory for Diphtheria, Oberschleißheim, Germany.
Alexandra DangelDepartment of Public Health Microbiology, Bavarian Health and Food Safety Authority, Oberschleißheim, Germany.
Katja BengsDepartment of Public Health Microbiology, Bavarian Health and Food Safety Authority, Oberschleißheim, Germany.
Sandra SchlotmannPublic Health Authority Havelland, Rathenow, Brandenburg, Germany.
Peter ThomaßenPublic Health Authority Havelland, Rathenow, Brandenburg, Germany.
Claudia MadayPublic Health Authority Havelland, Rathenow, Brandenburg, Germany.
Carmen RubachPublic Health Authority Havelland, Rathenow, Brandenburg, Germany.
Inas AbdelgawadPublic Health Authority Havelland, Rathenow, Brandenburg, Germany.
Gabriele NamaschkPublic Health Authority Berlin-Spandau, Berlin, Germany.
Lena SchneiderECDC Fellowship Programme, EPIET Associated Programme, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden.
Delphine PerriatDepartment of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Robert Koch Institute (RKI), Berlin, Germany.
Franziska BadenschierDepartment of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Robert Koch Institute (RKI), Berlin, Germany.
Cornelius RauDepartment of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Robert Koch Institute (RKI), Berlin, Germany.
Mark MuscatVaccine-Preventable Diseases and Immunization Programme, World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Andreas SingNational Consiliary Laboratory for Diphtheria, Oberschleißheim, Germany.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In September 2024, a school-aged child (P1), unvaccinated against diphtheria, was hospitalised with severe respiratory diphtheria caused by toxigenic

Indexed as

Corynebacterium diphtheriaeDiphtheriaDisease OutbreaksRespiratory Tract InfectionsChildFemaleGermanyHumansMaleMultilocus Sequence TypingCorynebacterium diphtheriaediphtheriaIll-Housed PersonsmigrantsMLSTNGSoutbreaktoxigenictypingWGS

Identifiers

PMID40642771
PMCPMC12262112

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