Septicemia in an immunocompetent adult in the Czech Republic caused by Corynebacterium diphtheriae nontoxigenic strain biotype mitis: emergence of invasive cases in Western Europe

• Ricardo Massmann, Dr.,
• Jana Zavadilová,
• Jana Drozenová, Dr.,
• David Fiksa,
• Dita Smíšková, Dr.

Affiliations

Ricardo Massmann, Dr.

Department of Infectious, Parasitic and Tropic Diseases of the Hospital Na Bulovce and third Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic; Corresponding author.

Jana Zavadilová

Head of the National Reference Laboratory for Pertussis and Diphtheria, at the National Institute of Public Health, Prague, Czech Republic

Jana Drozenová, Dr.

Department of microbiology of the Hospital Na Bulovce, Prague, Czech Republic

David Fiksa

Student of Medicine at the Second Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague, Czech republic

Dita Smíšková, Dr.

Department of Infectious, Parasitic and Tropic Diseases of the Hospital Na Bulovce and Second Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic