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ArticleEuro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin2026

Diphtheria outbreak, Northern Territory of Australia, 2025 to 2026.

Anthony Dk Draper, Mark Sistrom, Kimberley McMahon, Robert Duguid, Jerry Chen, Georgia Cramp, Thomas Cherian, Mirsaed Miri Nargesi, Dzulfikaar Sutandar, Kevin Freeman and 28 more

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Article in Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 1 paper.

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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

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

38 authors.

Anthony Dk DraperThese authors contributed equally to this work and share first authorship.
Mark SistromThese authors contributed equally to this work and share first authorship.
Kimberley McMahonCentre for Disease Control, Northern Territory Government Department of Health, Darwin, Australia.
Robert DuguidPaediatric Department, Royal Darwin Hospital, Darwin, Australia.
Jerry ChenCentre for Disease Control, Northern Territory Government Department of Health, Darwin, Australia.
Georgia CrampTerritory Pathology, Royal Darwin Hospital, Darwin, Australia.
Thomas CherianNational Critical Care and Trauma Response Centre, Darwin, Australia.
Mirsaed Miri NargesiTerritory Pathology, Royal Darwin Hospital, Darwin, Australia.
Dzulfikaar SutandarHealth Statistics and Informatics, Northern Territory Department of Health, Darwin, Australia.
Kevin FreemanTerritory Pathology, Royal Darwin Hospital, Darwin, Australia.
Kelly LomasCentre for Disease Control, Northern Territory Government Department of Health, Darwin, Australia.
Tarrant TolottaCentre for Disease Control, Northern Territory Government Department of Health, Darwin, Australia.
Jenine C GunnCentre for Disease Control, Northern Territory Government Department of Health, Darwin, Australia.
Rowena BoydHealth Statistics and Informatics, Northern Territory Department of Health, Darwin, Australia.
Jann HennessyTerritory Pathology, Royal Darwin Hospital, Darwin, Australia.
Tinus CreeperTerritory Pathology, Royal Darwin Hospital, Darwin, Australia.
Jaimee HarbidgeTerritory Pathology, Royal Darwin Hospital, Darwin, Australia.
Fatima SarmientoHealth Statistics and Informatics, Northern Territory Department of Health, Darwin, Australia.
Rebecca CurrCentre for Disease Control, Northern Territory Government Department of Health, Alice Springs, Australia.
Jennifer YanPaediatric Department, Royal Darwin Hospital, Darwin, Australia.
Joshua R FrancisPaediatric Department, Royal Darwin Hospital, Darwin, Australia.
Robert BairdTerritory Pathology, Royal Darwin Hospital, Darwin, Australia.
Hayley StrattonTerritory Pathology, Royal Darwin Hospital, Darwin, Australia.
Jane DaviesDepartment of Infectious Diseases, Division of Medicine, Royal Darwin Hospital, Darwin, Australia.
Catherine S MarshallDepartment of Infectious Diseases, Division of Medicine, Royal Darwin Hospital, Darwin, Australia.
Sonja JansonDepartment of Infectious Diseases, Division of Medicine, Royal Darwin Hospital, Darwin, Australia.
Nerida MooreDepartment of Infectious Diseases, Division of Medicine, Royal Darwin Hospital, Darwin, Australia.
Rebecca WardellDepartment of Infectious Diseases, Division of Medicine, Alice Springs Hospital, Alice Springs, Australia.
Eugene AthanDepartment of Infectious Diseases, Division of Medicine, Alice Springs Hospital, Alice Springs, Australia.
George DrewettDepartment of Infectious Diseases, Division of Medicine, Alice Springs Hospital, Alice Springs, Australia.
Liz MooreAboriginal Medical Services Alliance Northern Territory, Darwin, Australia.
Elly LaytonNational Critical Care and Trauma Response Centre, Darwin, Australia.
Unni Susil KumarHealth Statistics and Informatics, Northern Territory Department of Health, Darwin, Australia.
Rosalind WebbyCentre for Disease Control, Northern Territory Government Department of Health, Darwin, Australia.
Ashish YadavCentre for Disease Control, Northern Territory Government Department of Health, Darwin, Australia.
Vicki L KrauseCentre for Disease Control, Northern Territory Government Department of Health, Darwin, Australia.
Bhavi RavindranThese authors contributed equally to this work and share last authorship.
Ella M MeumannThese authors contributed equally to this work and share last authorship.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Because of high vaccination rates, the Northern Territory of Australia had not seen locally transmitted toxigenic

Indexed as

Corynebacterium diphtheriaeDiphtheriaDisease OutbreaksVaccinationAdolescentAdultChildChild, PreschoolDiphtheria ToxoidFemaleHumansMaleNorthern TerritoryYoung AdultDiphtheria ToxoidAboriginal AustraliansCorynebacterium diphtheriae, Northern Territory, Australia, VaccinationDiphtheriaoutbreakwhole genome sequencing

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PMID42283111
PMCPMC13263650

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