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Volume 18, Number 2—February 2012
Research

Diphtheria in the Postepidemic Period, Europe, 2000–2009

Karen S. WagnerComments to Author , Joanne M. White, Irina Lucenko, David Mercer, Natasha S. Crowcroft, Shona Neal, Androulla Efstratiou, on behalf of the Diphtheria Surveillance Network
Author affiliations: Health Protection Agency, London, UK (K.S. Wagner, J.M. White, N.S. Crowcroft, S. Neal, A. Efstratiou); State Agency Infectology Center of Latvia, Riga, Latvia (I. Lucenko); World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen, Denmark (D. Mercer); Public Health Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (N.S. Crowcroft); University of Toronto Dalla Lana School of Public Health, Toronto (N.S. Crowcroft)

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Table 4

Vaccination status of case-patients and clinical manifestations of toxigenic Corynebacterium diphtheriae and C. ulcerans infections and epidemiologically linked cases without laboratory confirmation, DIPNET cases excluding Latvia, Europe, 2000–2009*

Vaccination status Classic respiratory diphtheria (with membrane) Mild respiratory diphtheria/severe pharyngitis Cutaneous Other Asymptomatic Not known Total
Full 4 17 2 1† 2 0 26
Partial 5 3 7 0 0 0 15
Unvaccinated 14 3 4 0 1 0 22
Not known 15 10 15‡ 1§ 12 11¶ 64
Total 38 33 28 2 15 11 127

*DIPNET, Diphtheria Surveillance Network. p = 0.001 by test for trend (vaccination status and disease severity).
†Bacterial endocarditis (C. diphtheriae, fully vaccinated)
‡One cutaneous case-patient also had a sore throat.
§Isolation from blood (C. ulcerans, vaccination status not known).
¶Includes 2 case-patients infected with C. diphtheriae who died and are assumed to have respiratory symptoms without specific details available.

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1Additional members of the Diphtheria Surveillance Network who contributed data are listed in Technical Appendix 1.

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