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Corynebacterium striatum: an emerging respiratory pathogen [PDF]

Journal of Infection in Developing Countries, 2018
Introduction: Corynebacterium spp. are primarily considered normal flora and dismissed when isolated from clinical specimens. In recent years, Corynebacterium striatum has emerged as a multi-drug resistant human pathogen which can cause nosocomial ...
Malini Shariff, Aditi Aditi, Kiran Beri
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Clonal Multidrug-Resistant Corynebacterium striatum Strains, Italy [PDF]

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2009
We assessed the clinical relevance and performed molecular characterization of 36 multidrug-resistant strains of Corynebacterium striatum. Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis confirmed a single clone, possessing erm(X), tetA/B, cmxA/B, and aphA1 genes, but ...
Floriana Campanile, Edoardo Carretto, Daniela Barbarini, Annalisa Grigis, Marco Falcone, Antonio Goglio, Mario Venditti, Stefania Stefani   +7 more
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Antimicrobial susceptibility pattern of Corynebacterium striatum [PDF]

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 1996
The in vitro activities of 16 antimicrobial agents against 86 strains of Corynebacterium striatum were evaluated by microdilution using cation- adjusted Mueller-Hinton broth.
Martínez Martínez, Luis, Pascual Hernández, Álvaro, Suárez, Ana Isabel, Bernard, Kathryn   +3 more
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Corynebacterium striatum infecting a malignant cutaneous lesion: the emergence of an opportunistic pathogen Corynebacterium striatum infectando lesão cutânea maligna: a emergência de um patógeno oportunista

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo, 2009
We described a case of a 27-year old male patient with skin and soft tissue infection of a neoplastic lesion caused by Corynebacterium striatum, an organism which has been rarely described as a human pathogen.
Silvana Vargas Superti, Daniela de Souza Martins, Juliana Caierão, Fabiana Soares, Taísa Prochnow, Vlademir Vicente Cantarelli, Alexandre Prehn Zavascki   +6 more
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Rapid transmission of multidrug-resistant Corynebacterium striatum among susceptible patients in a tertiary hospital in China [PDF]

Journal of Infection in Developing Countries, 2016
Introduction: With increasing reports about Corynebacterium striatum, its potential pathogenicity and clinical significance are drawing more attention in recent years.
Junrui Wang, Yanyan Wang, Xiaoli Du, Jinghua Cui, Kai Wang, Lipeng Zhang, Yanqiu Han   +6 more
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MULTIPLE PULMONARY NODULES CAUSED BY Corynebacterium striatum IN AN IMMUNOCOMPETENT PATIENT [PDF]

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo, 2014
Nondiphtherial corynebacteria are ubiquitous in nature and commonly colonize the skin and mucous membranes of humans, however they rarely account for clinical infection.
Cecilia Bittencourt Severo, Luciana Silva Guazzelli, Marinez Bizarro Barra, Bruno Hochhegger, Luiz Carlos Severo   +4 more
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Chronic Corynebacterium striatum Septic Arthritis in a Patient Referred for Total Knee Arthroplasty

Case Reports in Orthopedics, 2020
Background. While Corynebacterium striatum and other Corynebacterium species were historically considered contaminants, they are recently being identified as pathogens with increasing frequency. Case Summary. We report the case of a 78-year-old gentleman
Katharine Hollnagel, Jacob Willen, Michael Ellis, Yalda Soleimanifard, Robert Booth, Sumon Nandi   +5 more
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Cutaneous Corynebacterium Infection Presenting with Disseminated Skin Nodules and Ulceration [PDF]

Case Reports in Dermatology, 2017
In the context of the European migrant crisis, more and more cases of cutaneous diphtheria are seen. A typical presentation includes painful cutaneous ulcerations with grayish-whitish pseudomembranes.
Antonios G.A. Kolios, Antonio Cozzio, Annelies S. Zinkernagel, Lars E. French, Thomas M. Kündig   +4 more
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Faucial diphtheria infection caused due to Corynebacterium striatum in a paediatric patient – A rare case report from central India

Microbiologia Medica
Medically relevant Corynebacterium species include Corynebacterium diphtheriae, and non-diphtherial Corynebacteria. A part of the normal flora of the skin and mucous membranes, non-diphtherial Corynebacteria, which is frequently dismissed as a ...
Pooja Shendre, Sagnik Poddar, Sonal Chavan, Ravita Sharma, Gopal Agrawal, Sunanda Shrikhande   +5 more
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Pulmonary Abscess Due to Corynebacterium Striatum.

Journal of the Tennessee Medical Association, 1996
Non-diphtheria corynebacteria are normal commensals of the skin and mucous membranes of humans. Increasingly, however, these saprophytic organisms are being recognized as pathogens.
Mukkamala, R., Byrd, R. P., Roy, T. M., Batson, J. H.   +3 more
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