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

Published:2023-05-24 Issue:5 Volume:30 Page:
ISSN:1195-1982
Container-title:Journal of Travel Medicine
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Author:

Taccari Francesco¹^ORCID,Frondizi Federico²,Salvati Federica²,Giovannenze Francesca¹,Del Giacomo Paola¹,Damiano Fernando¹,Spanu Teresa¹³⁴,Graffeo Rosalia¹,Menchinelli Giulia¹,Mariotti Melinda³⁴,Sanguinetti Maurizio¹³⁴,Castri Federica⁵⁶,Neumayr Andreas⁷⁸⁹¹⁰,Brunetti Enrico¹¹¹²¹³,Errico Giulia¹⁴,Murri Rita¹²,Cauda Roberto¹²,Scoppettuolo Giancarlo¹²

Affiliation:

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, , Rome , Italy

4. Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore , Cliniche Intensivologiche e Perioperatorie, , Rome , Italy

5. Dipartimento di Scienze della salute della donna , del bambino e di sanità pubblica, , Rome , Italy

6. Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS , del bambino e di sanità pubblica, , Rome , Italy

7. Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute , Basel , Switzerland

8. University of Basel , Basel , Switzerland

9. Department of Public Health and Tropical Medicine , College of Public Health, Medical and Veterinary Sciences, , Queensland, Douglas , Australia

10. James Cook University , College of Public Health, Medical and Veterinary Sciences, , Queensland, Douglas , Australia

11. Division of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, IRCCS S. Matteo Hospital Foundation , Pavia , Italy

12. Department of Clinical , Surgical, Diagnostic and Pediatric Sciences, , Pavia , Italy

13. University of Pavia , Surgical, Diagnostic and Pediatric Sciences, , Pavia , Italy

14. Department of Infectious Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità , Rome , Italy

Abstract

A 24-year-old male Bangladeshi asylum seeker presented to the emergency department of Policlinico A. Gemelli of Rome, Italy with multiple nodular, pruritic lesions on both lower limbs and both elbows. We present a skin disease typical for persons living in crowded conditions.

Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP)

Subject

General Medicine

Link

https://academic.oup.com/jtm/advance-article-pdf/doi/10.1093/jtm/taad073/50561293/taad073.pdf

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