Fatal respiratory diphtheria in a visitor to Canada

Scott Cholewa; Fareen Karachiwalla; Sarah E. Wilson; Jeya Nadarajah; Julianne V. Kus

doi:10.1503/cmaj.200707

Article Information

vol. 193 no. 1 E19-E22

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.200707

PubMed

33397635

History

Published online January 3, 2021.

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Author Information

Scott Cholewa, MA BHSc DPA,
Fareen Karachiwalla, MD MPH,
Sarah E. Wilson, MD MSc,
Jeya Nadarajah, MD MSc,
Julianne V. Kus, PhD MSc

Public Health Branch (Cholewa, Karachiwalla), Regional Municipality of York, Newmarket, Ont.; Dalla Lana School of Public Health (Karachiwalla, Wilson), and Faculty of Medicine (Nadarajah), and Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology (Kus), University of Toronto; Public Health Ontario (Wilson, Kus), Toronto, Ont.; Department of Family Medicine, School of Medicine (Karachiwalla), Queen’s University, Kingston, Ont.; Institute for Clinical Evaluative Studies, (Wilson), Toronto, Ont.