Diphtheria
MMWR Articles
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CDC. Prevention of Pertussis, Tetanus, and Diphtheria Among Pregnant and Postpartum Women and their Infants MMWR May 30, 2008 / 57 (04);1-47,51 |
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CDC. Preventing Tetanus, Diphtheria, and Pertussis Among Adults: Use of Tetanus Toxoid, Reduced Diphtheria Toxoid and Acellular Pertussis Vaccine MMWR December 15, 2006 / 55(RR17);1-33
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CDC. Preventing Tetanus, Diphtheria, and Pertussis Among Adolescents: Use of Tetanus Toxoid, Reduced Diphtheria Toxoid and Acellular Pertussis Vaccines MMWR March 24, 2006 / 55(RR03);1-34 |
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CDC. Combination Vaccines for Childhood Immunization, MMWR May14, 1999 / 48(RR05);1-15 |
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CDC. Toxigenic Corynebacterium diphtheriae -- Northern Plains Indians MMWR June 6, 1997 / 46(22);506-510 |
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CDC. Fatal Respiratory Diphtheria in a U.S. Traveler to Haiti --- Pennsylvania, 2003 MMWR January 9, 2004 / 52(53); 1285-1286.
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Bisgsard KM, Hardy IRB, Popovic T, Strebel PM, Wharton M, Chen RT, Hadler SC. Respiratory diphtheria in the United States, 1980 through 1995. Am J Public Health 1998; 88: 787-791.
Dittmann S. Epidemic diphtheria in the Newly Independent States of the former USSR-situation and lessons learned. Int Assoc Biol Standard 1997; 25: 179-186.
Popovic T, Kim C, Reiss JA, Reeves MW, Nakao H, Golaz A. Use of molecular subtyping to document long-term persistence of Corynebacterium diphtheriae in South Dakota. J Clin Microbiol 1999; 37: 1092-99.
Mothersed EA, Cassiday PK, Pierson K, Mayer LW, Popovic T. Development of a real-time flourescent PCR assay for rapid detection of the diphtheria toxin gene. J Clin Microbiol 2002; 40: 4713-4719.
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