Tox-positive Corynebacterium ulcerans in hedgehogs, Germany

Toxigenic Corynebacterium ulcerans may cause both respiratory and cutaneous diphtheria in humans. As a zoonotic emerging pathogen it has been isolated from a wide variety of animals living in captivity, such as livestock, pet, zoo and research animals and additionally in a large number of different...

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Autores principales: Berger, Anja, Dangel, Alexandra, Peters, Martin, Mühldorfer, Kristin, Braune, Silke, Eisenberg, Tobias, Szentiks, Claudia A., Rau, Jörg, Konrad, Regina, Hörmansdorfer, Stefan, Ackermann, Nikolaus, Sing, Andreas
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6455118/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30866774
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/22221751.2018.1562312
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author Berger, Anja
Dangel, Alexandra
Peters, Martin
Mühldorfer, Kristin
Braune, Silke
Eisenberg, Tobias
Szentiks, Claudia A.
Rau, Jörg
Konrad, Regina
Hörmansdorfer, Stefan
Ackermann, Nikolaus
Sing, Andreas
author_facet Berger, Anja
Dangel, Alexandra
Peters, Martin
Mühldorfer, Kristin
Braune, Silke
Eisenberg, Tobias
Szentiks, Claudia A.
Rau, Jörg
Konrad, Regina
Hörmansdorfer, Stefan
Ackermann, Nikolaus
Sing, Andreas
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description Toxigenic Corynebacterium ulcerans may cause both respiratory and cutaneous diphtheria in humans. As a zoonotic emerging pathogen it has been isolated from a wide variety of animals living in captivity, such as livestock, pet, zoo and research animals and additionally in a large number of different wild animals. Here we report the isolation of tox-positive C. ulcerans in four hedgehogs with cutaneous diphtheria and pneumonia, respectively.
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spelling pubmed-64551182019-04-18 Tox-positive Corynebacterium ulcerans in hedgehogs, Germany Berger, Anja Dangel, Alexandra Peters, Martin Mühldorfer, Kristin Braune, Silke Eisenberg, Tobias Szentiks, Claudia A. Rau, Jörg Konrad, Regina Hörmansdorfer, Stefan Ackermann, Nikolaus Sing, Andreas Emerg Microbes Infect Article Toxigenic Corynebacterium ulcerans may cause both respiratory and cutaneous diphtheria in humans. As a zoonotic emerging pathogen it has been isolated from a wide variety of animals living in captivity, such as livestock, pet, zoo and research animals and additionally in a large number of different wild animals. Here we report the isolation of tox-positive C. ulcerans in four hedgehogs with cutaneous diphtheria and pneumonia, respectively. Taylor & Francis 2019-01-21 /pmc/articles/PMC6455118/ /pubmed/30866774 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/22221751.2018.1562312 Text en © 2019 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group, on behalf of Shanghai Shangyixun Cultural Communication Co., Ltd http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Berger, Anja
Dangel, Alexandra
Peters, Martin
Mühldorfer, Kristin
Braune, Silke
Eisenberg, Tobias
Szentiks, Claudia A.
Rau, Jörg
Konrad, Regina
Hörmansdorfer, Stefan
Ackermann, Nikolaus
Sing, Andreas
Tox-positive Corynebacterium ulcerans in hedgehogs, Germany
title Tox-positive Corynebacterium ulcerans in hedgehogs, Germany
title_full Tox-positive Corynebacterium ulcerans in hedgehogs, Germany
title_fullStr Tox-positive Corynebacterium ulcerans in hedgehogs, Germany
title_full_unstemmed Tox-positive Corynebacterium ulcerans in hedgehogs, Germany
title_short Tox-positive Corynebacterium ulcerans in hedgehogs, Germany
title_sort tox-positive corynebacterium ulcerans in hedgehogs, germany
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6455118/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30866774
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/22221751.2018.1562312
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