Volume 18, Number 2—February 2012
Research
Diphtheria in the Postepidemic Period, Europe, 2000–2009
Karen S. Wagner
, Joanne M. White, Irina Lucenko, David Mercer, Natasha S. Crowcroft, Shona Neal, Androulla Efstratiou, and on behalf of the Diphtheria Surveillance Network
, Joanne M. White, Irina Lucenko, David Mercer, Natasha S. Crowcroft, Shona Neal, Androulla Efstratiou, and on behalf of the Diphtheria Surveillance NetworkTable 2
Isolates of toxigenic Corynebacterium ulcerans and patient deaths reported by DIPNET member countries, Europe, 2000–2009*
| Characteristic | Patient description† | No. toxigenic isolates (no. deaths) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | ||
| Country | |||||||||||
| France | Total | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Germany | Total | 1 | 1 (1) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Italy | Total | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| The Netherlands | Total | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Romania | Asymptomatic | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Sweden | Symptomatic | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Not known | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Total | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| United Kingdom | Total | 7 (1) | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 (1) | 3 | 3 | 2 |
| No. symptomatic patients | NA | 8 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 5 |
| No. isolates | NA | 8 (1) | 6 (1) | 4 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 6 (1) | 7 | 4 | 5 |
*DIPNET, Diphtheria Surveillance Network; NA, not applicable
†If only total is shown for a country, all patients were symptomatic.
1Additional members of the Diphtheria Surveillance Network who contributed data are listed in Technical Appendix 1.
