Clinical Characteristics of Corynebacterium ulcerans Infection, Japan [PDF]
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2023 Corynebacterium ulcerans is a closely related bacterium to the diphtheria bacterium C. diphtheriae, and some C. ulcerans strains produce toxins that are similar to diphtheria toxin. C.
Akihiko Yamamoto +30 more
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Case Report: Toxigenic Corynebacterium ulcerans Diphtheria-Like Infection in a Horse in the United Kingdom [PDF]
Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2021 Corynebacterium ulcerans (C. ulcerans) may cause diphtheria in humans and can be carried by a wide range of animal species including dairy cows and, more recently, dogs and cats that have been increasingly involved in zoonotic trasmission.
Katie Hopkins +2 more
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Prepatellar Bursitis with Abscess due to Corynebacterium ulcerans [PDF]
Case Reports in Orthopedics, 2021 Corynebacteria are ubiquitous and reside as skin and mucosa commensals in animals. They are considered contaminants in clinical specimens, but significant clinical data points to their virulence and pathogenic potential over the last two decades ...
Sachin M. Patil +4 more
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Tox -positive Corynebacterium ulcerans in hedgehogs, Germany [PDF]
Emerging Microbes and Infections, 2019 Toxigenic Corynebacterium ulcerans may cause both respiratory and cutaneous diphtheria in humans. As a zoonotic emerging pathogen it has been isolated from a wide variety of animals living in captivity, such as livestock, pet, zoo and research animals ...
Alexandra Dangel +2 more
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Microevolution and genomic epidemiology of the diphtheria-causing zoonotic pathogen Corynebacterium ulcerans [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsCorynebacterium ulcerans is an emerging zoonotic pathogen which causes diphtheria-like infections. Although C. ulcerans is found in multiple domestic and wild animal species, most human cases are linked with pets.
Chiara Crestani +7 more
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Corynebacterium ulcerans Infections in Eurasian Beavers (Castor fiber) [PDF]
Pathogens, 2023 The Eurasian beaver (Castor fiber) has been reintroduced successfully in Germany since the 1990s. Since wildlife is an important source of zoonotic infectious diseases, monitoring of invasive and reintroduced species is crucial with respect to the One ...
Reinhard Sting +10 more
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Transmission of toxigenic Corynebacterium ulcerans infection with airway obstruction from cats to a human [PDF]
Acute Medicine & Surgery, 2021 Background Infections caused by Corynebacterium ulcerans, a zoonotic pathogen, have been reported worldwide. This microorganism is known to produce the diphtheria toxin and cause diphtheria‐like illness.
Masatoshi Uchida, Koji Wake
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Limitations of Ribotyping as Genotyping Method for Corynebacterium ulcerans [PDF]
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2020 We conducted molecular typing of a Corynebacterium ulcerans isolate from a woman who died in Japan in 2016. Genomic DNA modification might have affected the isolate’s ribotyping profile.
Tsuyoshi Sekizuka +7 more
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Widespread Disease in Hedgehogs (Erinaceus europaeus) Caused by Toxigenic Corynebacterium ulcerans [PDF]
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2021 Toxin-producing Corynebacterium ulcerans, a causative agent of diphtheria in humans, was isolated from 53 hedgehogs in Belgium during the spring of 2020. Isolates showed low levels of acquired antimicrobial drug resistance.
An Martel +10 more
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Severe Respiratory Diphtheria-Like Illness Caused by Toxigenic Corynebacterium ulcerans [PDF]
Emerging Infectious DiseasesWe report a possible zoonotic case of severe diphtheria-like respiratory illness in Norway caused by a previously unreported toxigenic Corynebacterium ulcerans sequence type. This case highlights C.
Rita Helleren +7 more
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