Emerging Infectious Diseases (Feb 2015)

Zoonotic Transmission of Toxigenic Corynebacterium ulcerans Strain, Germany, 2012

  • Dominik M. Meinel,
  • Regina Konrad,
  • Anja Berger,
  • Christina König,
  • Torsten Schmidt-Wieland,
  • Michael Hogardt,
  • Heribert Bischoff,
  • Nikolaus Ackermann,
  • Stefan Hörmansdorfer,
  • Stefan Krebs,
  • Helmut Blum,
  • Gabriele Margos,
  • Andreas Sing

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2102.141160
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 21, no. 2
pp. 356 – 358

Abstract

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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. Results of next generation sequencing of both isolates supported recent zoonotic transmission of this bacterial pathogen.

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