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On 1 January 2016 ProMedMail reported a case of cutaneous diphtheria in a 60 year old Austrian man. The case presented to hospital in Austria on 22 December 2016 following his return from a month long holiday in Sri Lanka.
The man showed symptomatic signs of infection in tissues near his fingernail and several swabs tested positive for toxigenic corynebacterium diphtheriae. On the 30 December 2016, the World Health Organisation Global Reference Centre for Diphtheria and Streptococcal Infections at Public Health England confirmed the isolate as toxigenic Corynebacterium diphtheria.
(Via ProMedMail– accessed 05/01/17)
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