NCT05798247

Cutaneous Diphtheria in France : Observational, Retrospective Study of Patient Characteristics

Cutaneous Diphtheria in France : an Observational, Retrospective Study of Epidemiological, Clinical, Microbiological and Therapeutic Characteristics

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 63 (actual)
• Sponsor: Centre Hospitalier Intercommunal de Toulon La Seyne sur Mer · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Toxigenic cutaneous diphtheria is a notifiable disease that is re-emerging in the world and particularly in France. A better description of the epidemiological characteristics, as well as a refinement of the clinical characteristics of patients with cutaneous diphtheria, are essential to better understand this pathology, which has important public health issues and whose diagnosis absence can have catastrophic consequences for the patient and their contacts. Microbiological data (species identification, toxigenicity or not, resistance profile...) will be transmitted by the national reference center for corynebacteria of the diphtheriae complex and then caregivers who have managed the corresponding patients with cutaneous diphtheria will be contacted.

Conditions

• Corynebacterium Diphtheriae Infection

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Characteristics description	Caregivers who follow the patients of the study group will be contacted to collect these patients clinical and epidemiological characteristics

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-04-03
• Primary completion: 2023-08-10
• Completion: 2023-08-10
• First posted: 2023-04-04
• Last updated: 2025-07-10

Locations

42 sites across 1 country: France