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

Two diphtheria sub-clusters with autochthonous cases in Germany and Poland within a

Imme Friederike Roewer de Porto, Alexandra Dangel, Lena Schneider, Aleksandra A Zasada, Jonas Haller, Inas Abdelgawad, Claudia Siffczyk, Iwona Paradowska-Stankiewicz, Ole Wichmann, Franziska Badenschier and 3 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. 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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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors.

Imme Friederike Roewer de PortoDepartment for Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany.
Alexandra DangelThese authors contributed equally to this work and share first/last authorship.
Lena SchneiderDepartment for Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany.
Aleksandra A ZasadaDepartment of Sera and Vaccines Evaluation, National Institute of Public Health NIH - National Research Institute, Warsaw, Poland.
Jonas HallerGesundheitsamt Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Inas AbdelgawadLocal Public Health Authority Havelland, Brandenburg, Germany.
Claudia SiffczykDepartment for Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany.
Iwona Paradowska-StankiewiczDepartment of Infectious Diseases Epidemiology and Surveillance, National Institute of Public Health NIH - National Research Institute, Warsaw, Poland.
Ole WichmannDepartment for Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany.
Franziska BadenschierDepartment for Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany.
Anja BergerNational Consiliary Laboratory for Diphtheria, Bavarian Health and Food Safety Authority, Oberschleißheim, Germany.
Cornelius RauDepartment for Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany.
Andreas SingNational Consiliary Laboratory for Diphtheria, Bavarian Health and Food Safety Authority, Oberschleißheim, Germany.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Corynebacterium diphtheriaeDiphtheriaDisease OutbreaksAdolescentAdultAgedAged, 80 and overChildChild, PreschoolFemaleGermanyHumansInfantMaleMiddle AgedPolandCorynebacterium diphtheriaeDiphtheriaDisease outbreaksMigration and healthMultilocus Sequence TypingNext Generation SequencingOutbreak investigationST-574Vaccine-preventable disease

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PMCPMC12372894

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