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Quinolone Resistance and Zoonotic Potential of <i>Corynebacterium ulcerans</i> from Domestic Animals in Brazil. [PDF]

Antibiotics (Basel)
Background: Corynebacterium ulcerans is an emerging zoonotic pathogen capable of cau-sing diphtheria-like infections in humans. Objectives: we report, for the first time in Brazil, the detection and phenotypic/genomic characterization of three atoxigenic
Prates FD, Araújo MRB, da Silva Sousa J, de Oliveira Sant'Anna L, do Carmo Sant'Anna Cardoso T, Silva ACC, de Castro Soares S, Andrade BS, Dos Santos LS, de Carvalho Azevedo VA.   +9 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Diphtheria-like Disease Caused by Toxigenic Corynebacterium ulcerans Strain [PDF]

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2014
Toxigenic Corynebacterium ulcerans is an increasingly reported cause of diphtheria in the United Kingdom and is often associated with a zoonotic origin (1,2). Here, we report a case of diphtheria caused by toxigenic C.
Vartul Sangal, Leena Nieminen, Barbara Weinhardt, Jane Raeside, Nicholas P. Tucker, Catalina-Diana Florea, Kevin G. Pollock, Paul A. Hoskisson   +7 more
doaj   +5 more sources

Nontoxigenic tox-bearing Corynebacterium ulcerans Infection among Game Animals, Germany [PDF]

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2014
Corynebacterium ulcerans may cause diphtheria in humans and caseous lymphadenitis in animals. We isolated nontoxigenic tox-bearing C. ulcerans from 13 game animals in Germany.
Tobias Eisenberg, Peter Kutzer, Martin Peters, Andreas Sing, Matthias Contzen, Jörg Rau   +5 more
doaj   +2 more sources

When an underestimated zoonosis and antimicrobial resistance collide: Corynebacterium ulcerans. [PDF]

Access Microbiol
In the European region, diphtheria is now rarely suspected in patients presenting with upper respiratory tract symptoms. Corynebacterium ulcerans is the underestimated zoonosis that is replacing C.
Mori G, Errico G, Giancristoforo S, Visentin D, Castagna A, Viel L, Dellamaria D, Lorenzin G, Ortalli G, Scarparo C, Lanzafame M.   +10 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Macrolide resistance via 23S rRNA gene mutation in Corynebacterium ulcerans. [PDF]

J Antimicrob Chemother
Corynebacterium ulcerans is a zoonotic pathogen that can cause diphtheria-like illness in humans, including respiratory infections, skin lesions and ulcers.
Crestani C, Brémont S, Barbet M, Museux K, Badell E, Brisse S.   +5 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

The dtxR Gene: A New Alternative Marker to Identify Corynebacterium ulcerans and Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis by PCR Assay [PDF]

Indonesian Biomedical Journal, 2018
BACKGROUND: There are found some studies which reported the successfull of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay to identify Corynebacterium ulcerans and Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis.
Sunarno Sunarno, Nyoman Fitri, Nelly Puspandari, Kambang Sariadji   +3 more
doaj   +3 more sources

O03 A fatal case of necrotizing fasciitis due to toxigenic Corynebacterium ulcerans: diagnostic surprise with broad public health repercussions [PDF]

JAC Antimicrob Resist
Background Corynebacterium ulcerans is a Gram-positive bacillus capable of producing diphtheria toxin, leading to both respiratory and cutaneous diphtheria. Human infection remains rare in the UK due to high diphtheria vaccination coverage.
Melissa Prior-Ong
europepmc   +2 more sources

Molecular and Epidemiological Characterization of Toxigenic and Nontoxigenic Corynebacterium diphtheriae, Corynebacterium belfantii, Corynebacterium rouxii, and Corynebacterium ulcerans Isolates Identified in Spain from 2014 to 2019. [PDF]

J Clin Microbiol, 2021
This study examines the microbiological and epidemiological characteristics of toxigenic and nontoxigenic Corynebacterium isolates submitted to the national reference laboratory in Spain, between 2014 and 2019, in order to describe the current situation ...
Hoefer A, Pampaka D, Herrera-León S, Peiró S, Varona S, López-Perea N, Masa-Calles J, Herrera-León L.   +7 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

First isolation of nontoxigenic tox gene-bearing Corynebacterium ulcerans from a diphtheria case in Minas Gerais, Brazil. [PDF]

Braz J Microbiol
Diphtheria is a severe, vaccine-preventable infection caused mainly by Corynebacterium diphtheriae, but other species within the C. diphtheriae complex, including C. ulcerans, can also carry the diphtheria toxin (DT) coding gene (tox). Strains classified
Couto Calazans Silva A, de Oliveira Sant'Anna L, Nunes Soares PC, do Carmo Sant'Anna Cardoso T, Nunes Ramos J, Mattos-Guaraldi AL, Sanches Dos Santos L.   +6 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Non-toxigenic Corynebacterium ulcerans sequence types 325 and 339 isolated from two dogs with ulcerative lesions in Italy [PDF]

Journal of Veterinary Diagnostic Investigation, 2018
Corynebacterium ulcerans, an emerging pathogen related to C. diphtheriae and C. pseudotuberculosis, is able to cause disease in both human and animal hosts. C. ulcerans may harbor acquired virulence factors such as dermonecrotic exotoxin phospholipase D
Manuela Iurescia, Virginia Carfora, Andrea Caprioli   +2 more
exaly   +4 more sources