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Case Reports
. 2005 Feb;43(2):999-1001.
doi: 10.1128/JCM.43.2.999-1001.2005.

Corynebacterium ulcerans in an immunocompromised patient with diphtheria and her dog

Marie-Frédérique Lartigue  1 , Xavier Monnet, Anne Le Flèche, Patrick A D Grimont, Jean-Jacques Benet, Antoine Durrbach, Monique Fabre, Patrice Nordmann
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Case Reports

Corynebacterium ulcerans in an immunocompromised patient with diphtheria and her dog

Marie-Frédérique Lartigue et al. J Clin Microbiol. 2005 Feb.

Abstract

Corynebacterium ulcerans causes zoonotic infections, such as diphtheria and extrapharyngeal infections. We report here the first case of a diphtheria-like illness caused by C. ulcerans in France and transmitted likely by a dog to an immunocompromised woman.

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FIG. 1.
FIG. 1.
Chronic labial ulceration of the dog. The arrow points out the ulceration.
FIG. 2.
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Ribotype analysis by using RiboPrinter data and software Taxotron. The analysis considered two bands as identical when their size difference was <5% of their size. The complement of the Dice coefficient was used for calculating distances (averaged for both enzyme data) and clustering (unweighted pair-group method with arithmetic averages). The patient strain was 03 8664. All other numbers (03 9437, 03 9438, 03 9439, 03 9440, 03 9441, and 03 8907) were dog isolates. Collection de l'Institut Pasteur strains were epidemiologically unrelated C. ulcerans isolates.
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