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Open Forum Infect Dis. 2017 Jan 09;4(1):ofw271. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofw271. eCollection 2017.

Diagnosis in France of a Non-Toxigenic tox Gene-Bearing Strain of .

Open forum infectious diseases

Typhaine Billard-Pomares, Cécile Rouyer, Violaine Walewski, Edgar Badell-Ocando, Marc Dumas, Coralie Zumelzu, Françoise Jaureguy, Sylvain Brisse, Frédéric Caux, Olivier Bouchaud, Etienne Carbonnelle

Affiliations

  1. Microbiology Department, Hôpital Avicenne, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), Bobigny, France.
  2. Infection, Antimicrobiens, Modélisation, Evolution, Unité Mixte de Recherche 1137, Université Paris 13 - Sorbonne Paris Cité, France.
  3. Infectious Diseases Unit, Hôpital Avicenne, AP-HP, Bobigny, France.
  4. Institut Pasteur, National Reference Center for Corynebacteria of the diphtheriae Complex, Paris, France.
  5. Dermatology Department, Hôpital Avicenne, AP-HP, Bobigny, France.

PMID: 28480263 PMCID: PMC5413993 DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofw271

Abstract

Cutaneous diphtheria is uncommon in Europe. In this study, we report a case of imported cutaneous infection due to a non-toxigenic but

Keywords: Corynebacterium diphtheria; MALDI-TOF MS; cutaneous diphtheria; infectious disease; tox gene.

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