Original Article

An Outbreak of Diphtheria in a Southern City, 1959

Authors: THEODORE C. DOEGE, M.D., ROBERT J. WALKER, JR., M.D., M.P.H.

Abstract

Diphtheria is still with us. The nantoxigenic strains may cause the same clinical picture as the toxigenic ones. Current epidemics are almost entirely confined to children. Infection with the organism is likely to occur in the unimmunized.

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