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Bielinski S, St Sauver J, Olson J, Wieland M, Vitek C, Bell E, et al.
Pharmacogenomics J . 2016 Oct; 17(1):1-3. PMID: 27779246
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Vitek C
Curr Top Microbiol Immunol . 2006 Sep; 304:71-94. PMID: 16989265
Diphtheria is a contagious upper respiratory illness that was a major cause of childhood mortality in the prevaccine era. In the early twentieth century, an effective toxoid vaccine was developed....
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Tharmaphornpilas P, Yoocharoan P, Prempree P, Youngpairoj S, Sriprasert P, Vitek C
J Infect Dis . 2001 Sep; 184(8):1035-40. PMID: 11574919
Diphtheria remains endemic in developing countries, but there are limited published data on the subject. Thailand's diphtheria surveillance data are relatively complete and may give a fuller picture of the...
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Niyazmatov B, Shefer A, Grabowsky M, Vitek C
J Infect Dis . 2000 Feb; 181 Suppl 1:S104-9. PMID: 10657200
The Republic of Uzbekistan, like the other Newly Independent States in the 1990s, experienced epidemic diphtheria during the 1990s. The outbreak in Uzbekistan began in 1993 in southern regions that...
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Vitek C, Velibekov A
J Infect Dis . 2000 Feb; 181 Suppl 1:S73-9. PMID: 10657195
The diphtheria epidemic in the former Soviet Union reached Azerbaijan in 1991, when 66 cases of diphtheria were reported, a number that compared with 4 cases in 1990. From 1990-1996,...
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Filonov V, Zakharenko D, Vitek C, Romanovsky A, Zhukovski V
J Infect Dis . 2000 Feb; 181 Suppl 1:S41-6. PMID: 10657189
In 1990, epidemic diphtheria reemerged in Russia and spread to Belarus in 1992, when 66 cases were reported. Diphtheria cases doubled each year in 1993 and 1994 and peaked in...
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Markina S, Maksimova N, Vitek C, Bogatyreva E, Monisov A
J Infect Dis . 2000 Feb; 181 Suppl 1:S27-34. PMID: 10657187
A resurgence of diphtheria spread throughout the Russian Federation in the early 1990s; diphtheria had been well controlled, but circulation of toxigenic strains of Corynebacterium diphtheriae had persisted since the...
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Vitek C, Bogatyreva E, Wharton M
J Infect Dis . 2000 Feb; 181 Suppl 1:S23-6. PMID: 10657186
The Newly Independent States (NIS) inherited a common approach to diphtheria control from the Soviet Union and maintained a centralized system of surveillance and control managed by Soviet-trained epidemiologists with...
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Vitek C, Aduddell M, Brinton M, Hoffman R, Redd S
Pediatr Infect Dis J . 1999 Aug; 18(7):620-3. PMID: 10440438
Background: In 1989 a second dose of measles vaccine was recommended for US children to prevent school outbreaks of measles. Coverage of school age children with a second dose remains...
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Vitek C, Brisgalov S, Bragina V, Zhilyakov A, Bisgard K, Brennan M, et al.
Eur J Epidemiol . 1999 Mar; 15(1):75-83. PMID: 10098999
Background: A massive diphtheria epidemic which began in the former Soviet Union in 1990 is the first large-scale diphtheria epidemic in developed countries in more than 30 years and has...