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Case Reports
. 2014 Jul;142(7):1541-4.
doi: 10.1017/S0950268813002240. Epub 2013 Sep 20.

A case report and epidemiological investigation of axillary lymph node abscess caused by Corynebacterium ulcerans in an HIV-1-positive patient

Y Yoshimura  1 , N Tachikawa  1 , T Komiya  2 , A Yamamoto  2
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A case report and epidemiological investigation of axillary lymph node abscess caused by Corynebacterium ulcerans in an HIV-1-positive patient

Y Yoshimura et al. Epidemiol Infect. 2014 Jul.

Abstract

A human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV-1)-positive male undergoing antiretroviral therapy was diagnosed with an axillary lymph node abscess caused by Corynebacterium ulcerans, and an environmental survey revealed that the patient's cat as the source of infection.

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Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis analysis showing the same pattern for the patient (no. 7) and the cat (no. 8, nasal secretion; no. 9, pharyngeal content) strains. M, Lambda DNA marker; 1, 2, human isolates from the Chiba prefecture; 3, Okayama human isolate; 4, Ohita human isolate; 5, Kanagawa human isolate; 6, Tokyo human isolate; 10, 11, Ibaraki human isolate; 12, Shiga dog isolate.
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