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On 12 June 2015, was identified in a skin swab from a burns patient in Scotland. The isolate was confirmed to be genotypically and phenotypically toxigenic. Multilocus sequence typing of three patient isolates yielded sequence type ST 125. The patient was clinically well. We summarise findings of this case, and results of close contact identification and screening: 12 family and close contacts and 32 hospital staff have been found negative for .

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Colonisation with toxigenic Corynebacterium diphtheriae in a Scottish burns patient, June 2015
<p class="citation"> <span>Citation style for this article:</span> <span class="meta-value authors"> <a href="/search?value1=Ashutosh+Deshpande&option1=author&noRedirect=true" class="nonDisambigAuthorLink">Deshpande Ashutosh</a>, <a href="/search?value1=Teresa+Inkster&option1=author&noRedirect=true" class="nonDisambigAuthorLink">Inkster Teresa</a>, <a href="/search?value1=Kate+Hamilton&option1=author&noRedirect=true" class="nonDisambigAuthorLink">Hamilton Kate</a>, <a href="/search?value1=David+Litt&option1=author&noRedirect=true" class="nonDisambigAuthorLink">Litt David</a>, <a href="/search?value1=Norman+Fry&option1=author&noRedirect=true" class="nonDisambigAuthorLink">Fry Norman</a>, <a href="/search?value1=Iain+T+R+Kennedy&option1=author&noRedirect=true" class="nonDisambigAuthorLink">Kennedy Iain T R</a>, <a href="/search?value1=Jacqueline+Shookhye-Dickson&option1=author&noRedirect=true" class="nonDisambigAuthorLink">Shookhye-Dickson Jacqueline</a>, <a href="/search?value1=Robert+L+R+Hill&option1=author&noRedirect=true" class="nonDisambigAuthorLink">Hill Robert L R</a></span>. Colonisation with toxigenic Corynebacterium diphtheriae in a Scottish burns patient, June 2015. <a href="/content/ecdc">Euro Surveill.</a> 2015;20(49):pii=30088. <a href="https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2015.20.49.30088" title="doi link" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2015.20.49.30088</a> <span class="ES_Article_citation"> <span class="generated">Received</span>: 26 Nov 2015 </span> </p>
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