Epidemic Diphtheria in the Kyrgyz Republic, 1994–1998

V. M. Glinyenko,1 S. T. Abdikarimov,2 S. N. Firsova,3 E. A. Sagamonjan,4 R. Kadirova,5 J. P. Nuorti,6'3 and P. M. Strebel7 1Deputy' s Office, 2Department of Sanitary Epidemiologic Surveillance, and 3Republican Center for Immunoprophylaxis, Ministry of Health, ^Communicable Diseases Laboratory, Kyrgyz Scientific Research Institute for Prophylaxis and Medical Ecology, and 5Department of Childhood Infectious Diseases, the Kyrgyz State Medical Institute, Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic; 6Respiratory Diseases Branch, National Center for Infectious Diseases, and 1 Vaccine Preventable Disease Eradication Division, National Immunization Program, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia