Prevalence of diphtheria and antimicrobial-resistant wound infections among asylum seekers in Heidelberg, Germany, August–October 2024

• Bernadette Walter ,

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

  * E-mail: Bernadette.walter@sm.bwl.de

  ¶☯ These first authors contributed equally to this article.

  Affiliations State Health Office, Ministry of Social Affairs, Health and Integration Baden-Wuerttemberg, Stuttgart, Germany, Postgraduate Training for Applied Epidemiology (PAE), Department for Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany, ECDC Fellowship Programme, Field Epidemiology path (EPIET), European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2548-4577

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• Katharina Lück ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  ¶☯ These first authors contributed equally to this article.

  Affiliation Local Health Authority Rhine-Neckar-District, Heidelberg, Germany

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• Maja Adam,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation State Health Office, Ministry of Social Affairs, Health and Integration Baden-Wuerttemberg, Stuttgart, Germany

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• Bettina Winter,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Local Health Authority Rhine-Neckar-District, Heidelberg, Germany

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• Patryk Krauze,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation State Health Office, Ministry of Social Affairs, Health and Integration Baden-Wuerttemberg, Stuttgart, Germany

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• Jörg Rau,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Chemical and Veterinary Analysis Agency, Stuttgart, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1213-3586

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• Nina Knab,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Local Health Authority Rhine-Neckar-District, Heidelberg, Germany

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• Anne Kühn,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Local Health Authority Rhine-Neckar-District, Heidelberg, Germany

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• Andreas Welker,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Local Health Authority Rhine-Neckar-District, Heidelberg, Germany

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• Elisabeth Aichinger,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation State Health Office, Ministry of Social Affairs, Health and Integration Baden-Wuerttemberg, Stuttgart, Germany

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• Stefan Brockmann

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

  Affiliation State Health Office, Ministry of Social Affairs, Health and Integration Baden-Wuerttemberg, Stuttgart, Germany

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