Septicemia in an immunocompetent adult in the Czech Republic caused by Corynebacterium diphtheriae nontoxigenic strain biotype mitis: emergence of invasive cases in Western Europe

Braz J Infect Dis. 2020 Jan-Feb;24(1):89-91. doi: 10.1016/j.bjid.2019.12.003. Epub 2020 Jan 9.

¹ Department of Infectious, Parasitic and Tropic Diseases of the Hospital Na Bulovce and third Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. Electronic address: ricardo.massmann@bulovka.cz.
² Head of the National Reference Laboratory for Pertussis and Diphtheria, at the National Institute of Public Health, Prague, Czech Republic.
³ Department of microbiology of the Hospital Na Bulovce, Prague, Czech Republic.
⁴ Student of Medicine at the Second Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague, Czech republic.
⁵ Department of Infectious, Parasitic and Tropic Diseases of the Hospital Na Bulovce and Second Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic.

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