Zoonotic Transmission of Toxigenic Corynebacterium ulcerans Strain, Germany, 2012 [PDF]
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2015 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.
Dominik M. Meinel +12 more
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Antimicrobial susceptibility of Corynebacterium diphtheriae and Corynebacterium ulcerans in Germany 2011–17 [PDF]
Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, 2020 BACKGROUND Diphtheria is mainly caused by diphtheria-toxin-producing strains of Corynebacterium diphtheriae and Corynebacterium ulcerans. The recommended first-line antibiotic is penicillin or erythromycin, but reliable susceptibility data are scarce ...
Durdica Marosevic +2 more
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A case of cutaneous toxigenic Corynebacterium ulcerans likely acquired from a domestic dog. [PDF]
Access Microbiol, 2019 Introduction Corynebacterium ulcerans can produce diphtheria toxin and although still rare, is now the predominant cause of toxigenic diphtheria infection in the UK, making this organism of great clinical and public health importance.
Othieno R +8 more
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Surface and Extracellular Proteome of the Emerging Pathogen Corynebacterium ulcerans [PDF]
Proteomes, 2018 Corynebacterium ulcerans is an emerging pathogen, which is increasingly recognized as an etiological agent of diphtheria, but can also evoke ulcers of the skin and systemic infections in humans.
Miriam Bittel +4 more
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Complete Genome Sequence of Corynebacterium ulcerans Strain TSU-28, Harboring Two Diphtheria Toxin Genes, Isolated from a Patient with Diphtheria-Like Symptoms. [PDF]
Microbiol Resour Announc, 2023 Diphtheria toxin-producing Corynebacterium ulcerans is an emerging zoonotic pathogen that causes severe disease in humans. Here, we report the complete genome sequence of C. ulcerans strain TSU-28, harboring two diphtheria toxin genes, which was isolated
Kawase J +6 more
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Comparative whole-genome analysis of diphtheria toxin-producing Corynebacterium ulcerans isolates from sheltered cats in Osaka, Japan. [PDF]
J Vet Med Sci, 2023 Diphtheria toxin-producing Corynebacterium ulcerans is a zoonotic pathogen that causes human diphtheria-like symptoms. After performing whole-genome analysis of the five isolates from sheltered cats in Osaka, Japan, we compared them with genome sequences
Umeda K, Hirai Y.
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Zoonotic transmission of diphtheria toxin‐producing Corynebacterium ulcerans
Zoonoses and Public Health, Volume 71, Issue 2, Page 157-169, March 2024., 2023 Diphtheria caused by toxin‐producing Corynebacterium ulcerans is a re‐emerging human disease that can cause local and systemic sequelae. In Australia, toxigenic diphtheria is a rare notifiable communicable disease, due to high‐vaccination coverage.
Adeline Hillan +6 more
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Zoonoses and Public Health, Volume 71, Issue 2, Page 127-135, March 2024., 2023 Corynebacterium diphtheriae and Corynebacterium ulcerans, when producing toxin, are the cause of diphtheria, a potentially life‐threatening illness in humans.
Thomas Grönthal +11 more
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Active Circulation of Corynebacterium ulcerans among Nonhuman Primates. [PDF]
Microbiol Spectr, 2022 C. ulcerans represents an emerging zoonotic agent of diphtheria, but little is known about its transmission or maintenance among animal reservoirs. In these studies, we identified diphtheria outbreaks among both outdoor- and indoor-housed rhesus macaques
Thomas A +4 more
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Complete genome of a <i>Corynebacterium ulcerans</i> clinical isolate with two novel toxin gene alleles isolated from a leg ulcer. [PDF]
Microbiol Resour AnnouncWe report on the complete genome sequence of a clinical isolate of Corynebacterium ulcerans bearing two different and novel toxin gene alleles.
Bernier A-M +3 more
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