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Case Reports
. 2015 Feb;21(2):356-8.
doi: 10.3201/eid2102.141160.

Zoonotic transmission of toxigenic Corynebacterium ulcerans strain, Germany, 2012

Dominik M Meinel, Regina Konrad, Anja Berger, Christina König, Torsten Schmidt-Wieland, Michael Hogardt, Heribert Bischoff, Nikolaus Ackermann, Stefan Hörmansdorfer, Stefan Krebs, Helmut Blum, Gabriele Margos, Andreas Sing
Case Reports

Zoonotic transmission of toxigenic Corynebacterium ulcerans strain, Germany, 2012

Dominik M Meinel et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2015 Feb.

Abstract

Severe necrotizing fasciitis was diagnosed in a 53-year-old man in Germany in 2012. Toxigenic Corynebacterium ulcerans was grown from a wound swab sample. One of the patient's 2 dogs was found to harbor a toxigenic C. ulcerans strain. Results of next generation sequencing of both isolates supported recent zoonotic transmission of this bacterial pathogen.

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