Epidemiological, clinical, and public health response characteristics of a large outbreak of diphtheria among the Rohingya population in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, 2017 to 2019: A retrospective study.
Polonsky JA, Ivey M, Mazhar MKA, Rahman Z, le Polain de Waroux O, Karo B, Jalava K, Vong S, Baidjoe A, Diaz J, Finger F, Habib ZH, Halder CE, Haskew C, Kaiser L, Khan AS, Sangal L, Shirin T, Zaki QA, Salam MA, White K.
Polonsky JA, et al.
PLoS Med. 2021 Apr 1;18(4):e1003587. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1003587. eCollection 2021 Apr.
PLoS Med. 2021.
PMID: 33793554
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The typical symptoms were sore throat (93.5%), fever (86.0%), pseudomembrane (34.7%), and gross cervical lymphadenopathy (GCL; 30.6%). ...CONCLUSIONS: To our knowledge, this is the largest reported diphtheria outbreak in refugee settings. We observed that high popul …
The typical symptoms were sore throat (93.5%), fever (86.0%), pseudomembrane (34.7%), and gross cervical lymphadenopathy (GCL; 30.6%) …