Diphtheria in the south of France, March 2011

C Rousseau; E Belchior; B Broche; E Badell; N Guiso; I Laharie; O Patey; D Lévy-Bruhl

doi:10.2807/ese.16.19.19867-en

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Diphtheria in the south of France, March 2011
C Rousseau¹ , E Belchior² , B Broche³ , E Badell⁴ , N Guiso⁴ , I Laharie³ , O Patey⁵ , D Lévy-Bruhl²
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Affiliations: ¹ Cellule de l’InVS en région Languedoc-Roussillon (Cire), Montpellier, France ² Institut de Veille Sanitaire (French Institute for Public Health Surveillance, InVS), Département des maladies infectieuses, Saint-Maurice, France ³ Agence régionale de santé Languedoc-Roussillon, Montpellier, France ⁴ Centre national de référence des Corynebactéries toxinogènes, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France ⁵ Centre hospitalier intercommunal, Villeneuve-Saint-Georges, France

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C Rousseau
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Citation style for this article: Rousseau C, Belchior E, Broche B, Badell E, Guiso N, Laharie I, Patey O, Lévy-Bruhl D. Diphtheria in the south of France, March 2011 . Euro Surveill. 2011;16(19):pii=19867. https://doi.org/10.2807/ese.16.19.19867-en Received: 21 Apr 2011

Abstract

In March 2011, a 40 year-old French man was diagnosed with diphtheria caused by toxigenic Corynebacterium diphtheriae. Fifty-three close contacts were identified from whom throat samples were analysed. C. diphtheriae was found only in the asymptomatic partner of the index case. The two cases had travelled in Spain during the incubation period of the index case. Investigation around the second case identified 13 new close contacts. None of them was found to be infected.