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A Rare Case Report of Non-toxigenic Corynebacterium diphtheriae Bloodstream Infection in an Uncontrolled Diabetic With Peripheral Vascular Disease

Cureus, 2021
Corynebacterium diphtheriae usually causes respiratory diphtheria, which is considered as a disease of toxemia but never bacteremia. Over the last few decades, cutaneous diphtheria has been increasingly reported owing to the emergence of the non ...
Lakshmi Shanmugam, Ketan Priyadarshi, M. Kumaresan, Monika Sivaradjy, P. Upadhyay, T. Elamurugan, A. Sastry   +6 more
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Cutaneous infection by non-diphtheria-toxin producing and penicillin-resistant Corynebacterium diphtheriae strain in a patient with diabetes mellitus

Access Microbiology, 2021
Diphtheria is a potentially fatal infection, mostly caused by diphtheria toxin (DT)-producing Corynebacterium diphtheriae strains. During the last decades, the isolation of DT-producing C. diphtheriae strains has been decreasing worldwide.
Max R. Batista Araújo, Mireille Ângela Bernardes Sousa, Luisa Ferreira Seabra, Letícia Aparecida Caldeira, Carmem Dolores Faria, S. Bokermann, Lincoln de Oliveira Sant'Anna, L. S. dos Santos, A. Mattos-Guaraldi   +8 more
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Corynebacterium ulcerans cutaneous diphtheria [PDF]

The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 2015
We describe the case of a patient with cutaneous diphtheria caused by toxigenic Corynebacterium ulcerans who developed a right hand flexor sheath infection and symptoms of sepsis such as fever, tachycardia, and elevated C-reactive protein, after contact with domestic cats and dogs, and a fox.
Ann Sandison, Shiranee Sriskandan, Shiranee Sriskandan, Margie Meltzer, Luke S. P. Moore, Luke S. P. Moore, Asuka Leslie, Androulla Efstratiou   +7 more
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Multiplex polymerase chain reaction to identify and determine the toxigenicity of Corynebacterium spp with zoonotic potential and an overview of human and animal infections

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2013
Corynebacterium diphtheriae, Corynebacterium ulcerans and Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis constitute a group of potentially toxigenic microorganisms that are related to different infectious processes in animal and human hosts.
Luciene de Fatima Costa Torres, Dayana Ribeiro, Raphael Hirata Jr, Luis Gustavo Carvalho Pacheco, Monica Cristina Souza, Louisy Sanches dos Santos, Cintia Silva dos Santos, Mohammad Salah, Mateus Matiuzzi da Costa, Marcio Garcia Ribeiro, Salah A Selim, Vasco Ariston de Carvalho Azevedo, Ana Luiza Mattos-Guaraldi   +12 more
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ISOLAMENTO DE AMOSTRAS DO COMPLEXO CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTHERIAE POTENCIALMENTE TOXINOGÊNICAS DURANTE A PANDEMIA DA COVID-19 NO BRASIL: UM ALERTA À VIGILÂNCIA EPIDEMIOLÓGICA BRASILEIRA

Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2023
Introdução/objetivo: A difteria é uma toxiinfecção aguda que se apresenta na forma respiratória e/ou cutânea, e que pode ser fatal devido à ação da toxina diftérica (TD).
Lincoln de Oliveira Sant'Anna, Max Roberto Batista de Araújo, Tayná do Carmo Sant'Anna Cardoso, Fernanda Diniz Prates, Mariana da Cruz Mota, Mireille Ângela Bernardes Sousa, Paula Marcele Afonso Pereira Ribeiro, Ana Luiza de Mattos-Guaraldi, Louisy Sanches dos Santos   +8 more
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Non-toxigenic penicillin-resistant cutaneous C. diphtheriae infection: A case report and review of the literature

Journal of Infection and Public Health, 2015
Summary: Here, we report a case of non-toxigenic Corynebacterium diphtheriae in a previously healthy 14-year-old girl that was acquired in Ethiopia and presented locally. This is the first clinical case of penicillin-resistant C.
Rosemarie Philippa FitzGerald, Andrew J. Rosser, Dona Nelun Perera   +2 more
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Case of Ludwig's angina due to Corynebacterium diphtheriae from western Rajasthan, India-A case report of an uncommon presentation

Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2019
Corynebacterium diphtheriae is a toxin producing, classically noninvasive bacteria that causes diphtheria a vaccine-preventable disease mainly in children.
Yashik Bansal, Sarika P Kombade, Vijaya Lakshmi Nag, Sourabha Kumar Patro   +3 more
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The Corynebacterium diphtheriae HbpA Hemoglobin-Binding Protein Contains a Domain That Is Critical for Hemoprotein Binding, Cellular Localization, and Function

Journal of Bacteriology, 2021
Hemoproteins, such as Hb, are an abundant source of iron in humans and are proposed to be required by numerous pathogens to cause disease. In this report, we expand on our previous studies in further defining the role of HbpA in hemin iron acquisition in
Lindsey R. Lyman, Eric D Peng, M. Schmitt   +2 more
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Úlceras leishmanióticas cutâneas com presença de Corynebacterium diphtheriae Cutaneous leishmaniotic ulcers with Corynebacterium diphtheriae

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 2002
Em um estudo prospectivo para avaliar a influência da infecção bacteriana secundária na evolução da leishmaniose cutânea, em Corte de Pedra (Bahia), obteve-se o isolamento de Corynebacterium diphtheriae em 7(8,3%) de 84 pacientes portadores de úlceras ...
Luis Angel Vera, Vanize de Oliveira Macêdo, Albino Verçosa de Magalhães, Isolina Allen Ciuffo, Conceição Guerra Santos, João Barberino Santos   +5 more
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Adhesion properties of toxigenic corynebacteria

AIMS Microbiology, 2018
Corynebacterium diphtheriae, Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis and Corynebacterium ulcerans share one distinctive feature: they are all putative carriers of the diphtheria toxin (DT), encoded by a β-corynephage integrated into the genome.
Lisa Ott
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