Epidemiological, clinical, and public health response characteristics of a large outbreak of diphtheria among the Rohingya population in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, 2017 to 2019: A retrospective study

• Jonathan A. Polonsky ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: polonskyj@who.int

  Affiliations World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, Institute of Global Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8634-4255

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• Melissa Ivey,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Médecins Sans Frontières, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1795-5108

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• Md. Khadimul Anam Mazhar,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation World Health Organization Country Office for Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9303-6541

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• Ziaur Rahman,

  Roles Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Dhaka, Bangladesh

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7726-7120

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• Olivier le Polain de Waroux,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN), Geneva, Switzerland, Public Health England, London, United Kingdom, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, UK-Public Health Rapid Support Team, London, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3458-2945

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• Basel Karo,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN), Geneva, Switzerland, Information Centre for International Health Protection (ZIG 1), Robert Koch Institute (RKI), Berlin, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2178-1654

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• Katri Jalava,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation World Health Organization Country Office for Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9106-3186

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• Sirenda Vong,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation World Health Organization South-East Asia Regional Office, New Delhi, India

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• Amrish Baidjoe,

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, World Health Organization South-East Asia Regional Office, New Delhi, India

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• Janet Diaz,

  Roles Investigation, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8753-531X

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• Flavio Finger,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN), Geneva, Switzerland, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, Epicentre, Paris, France

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8613-5170

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• Zakir H. Habib,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Epidemiology Disease Control and Research (IEDCR), Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• Charls Erik Halder,

  Roles Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation International Organization for Migration, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh

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• Christopher Haskew,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1992-808X

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• Laurent Kaiser,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Global Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

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• Ali S. Khan,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN), Geneva, Switzerland, College of Public Health, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Nebraska, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8161-2823

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• Lucky Sangal,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation World Health Organization Country Office for India, New Delhi, India

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• Tahmina Shirin,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Epidemiology Disease Control and Research (IEDCR), Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• Quazi Ahmed Zaki,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Epidemiology Disease Control and Research (IEDCR), Dhaka, Bangladesh

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2884-5676

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• Md. Abdus Salam,

  Roles Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• Kate White

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Médecins Sans Frontières, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

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