Cutaneous diphtheria most likely due to exposure in a detention camp in Libya

J Travel Med. 2023 Sep 5;30(5):taad073. doi: 10.1093/jtm/taad073.

Francesco Taccari¹, Federico Frondizi², Federica Salvati², Francesca Giovannenze¹, Paola Del Giacomo¹, Fernando Damiano¹, Teresa Spanu^{1

3}, Rosalia Graffeo¹, Giulia Menchinelli¹, Melinda Mariotti³, Maurizio Sanguinetti^{1

3}, Federica Castri⁴, Andreas Neumayr^{5

6

7}, Enrico Brunetti^{8

9}, Giulia Errico¹⁰, Rita Murri^{1

2}, Roberto Cauda^{1

2}, Giancarlo Scoppettuolo^{1

2}

¹ Dipartimento di Scienze di Laboratorio e Infettivologiche, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, 00168, Rome, Italy.
² Dipartimento di Sicurezza e Bioetica, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy.
³ Dipartimento di Scienze Biotecnologiche di Base, Cliniche Intensivologiche e Perioperatorie, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy.
⁴ Dipartimento di Scienze della salute della donna, del bambino e di sanità pubblica, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS, Rome, Italy.
⁵ Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland.
⁶ University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
⁷ Department of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, College of Public Health, Medical and Veterinary Sciences, James Cook University, Queensland, Douglas, Australia.
⁸ Division of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, IRCCS S. Matteo Hospital Foundation, Pavia, Italy.
⁹ Department of Clinical, Surgical, Diagnostic and Pediatric Sciences, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy.
¹⁰ Department of Infectious Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy.

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Keywords: Corynebacterium; diphtheria; migrant; pruritic lesion; refugee; skin diseases; verrucous lesion.

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