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After 25 years without any indigenous cases of diphtheria in Sweden, an outbreak occurred in the city of Göteborg, during 1984 to 1986. A group of alcoholics constituted the reservoir of Corynebacterium diphtheriae. The outbreak included 13 clinical cases and 65 carriers. The death-to-case ratio and the complication rate among the clinical cases was high, with three fatal cases and six patients developing reversible paralyses. The fatal cases had no history of previous immunization. The outbreak demonstrates the necessity of a good vaccination status to diphtheria, also in countries where the disease was thought to have been eradicated.
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