Volume 6, Number 6—December 2000
Dispatch
Nontoxigenic Corynebacterium diphtheriae: An Emerging Pathogen in England and Wales?
Mark Reacher*
, Mary Ramsay*, Joanne White*, Aruni De Zoysa*, Androulla Efstratiou*, Gina Mann*, Andrew Mackay†, and Robert C. George*
, Mary Ramsay*, Joanne White*, Aruni De Zoysa*, Androulla Efstratiou*, Gina Mann*, Andrew Mackay†, and Robert C. George*
Table 1
English and Welsh patients with sore throats whose throat swabs yielded nontoxigenic Corynebacterium diphtheriae, 1995 and 1996
| Male patients |
Female patients |
Not recorded |
Total |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clinical Setting | No. | % | No. | % | No. | % | No. | % |
| General practice | 50 | 52 | 98 | 74 | 3 | 38 | 151 | 63 |
| Outpatients | 15 | 15 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 13 | 25 | 11 |
| GUM clinica | 11 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 12 | 5 |
| Inpatients | 8 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 6 |
| Other | 2 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 3 |
| Not recorded | 11 | 11 | 15 | 11 | 3 | 38 | 29 | 12 |
| All settings | 97 | 100 | 133 | 100 | 8 | 100 | 238 | 100 |
aGUM = genitourinary medicine.
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