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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, February 2005, p. 999-1001, Vol. 43, No. 2
0095-1137/05/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JCM.43.2.999-1001.2005
Copyright © 2005, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

CASE REPORT

Corynebacterium ulcerans in an Immunocompromised Patient with Diphtheria and Her Dog

Marie-Frédérique Lartigue,1 Xavier Monnet,2 Anne Le Flèche,3 Patrick A. D. Grimont,3 Jean-Jacques Benet,4 Antoine Durrbach,5 Monique Fabre,6 and Patrice Nordmann1*

Service de Bactériologie-Virologie,1 Service de Réanimation Médicale,2 Service de Néphrologie,5 Service d'Anatomie et de Cytologie Pathologiques, Hôpital de Bicêtre, Assistance Publique/Hôpitaux de Paris,6 Faculté de Médecine Paris-Sud, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, Centre National de Référence pour Corynebacterium diphtheriae, Unité de Biodiversité des Bactéries Pathogènes Emergentes, INSERM U389, Institut Pasteur, Paris,3 Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire d'Alfort, Maisons-Alfort, France4

Received 18 June 2004/ Returned for modification 4 July 2004/ Accepted 6 September 2004

Corynebacterium ulcerans causes zoonotic infections, such as diphtheria and extrapharyngeal infections. We report here the first case of a diphtheria-like illness caused by C. ulcerans in France and transmitted likely by a dog to an immunocompromised woman.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Service de Bactériologie-Virologie, Hôpital de Bicêtre, Assistance Publique/Hôpitaux de Paris, Université Paris XI, 78, Rue du Général Leclerc, 94275 Le Kremlin-Bicêtre Cedex, France. Phone: 33-1-45-21-36-32. Fax: 33-1-45-21-63-40. E-mail: nordmann.patrice{at}bct.ap-hop-paris.fr.

Journal of Clinical Microbiology, February 2005, p. 999-1001, Vol. 43, No. 2
0095-1137/05/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JCM.43.2.999-1001.2005
Copyright © 2005, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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