Pigs as source for toxigenic Corynebacterium ulcerans

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1314-1315

  Schuhegger, Regina ^a,b   Schoerner, Christoph ^c   Dlugaiczyk, Julia ^c   Lichtenfeld, Ina ^d   Trouillier, Alexander ^e   Zeller Peronnet, Veronique ^b   Busch, Ulrich ^b   Berger, Anja ^a,b   Kugler, Rudolf ^a,b   Hörmansdorfer, Stefan ^b   Sing, Andreas ^a,b  

^a National Consiliary Laboratory for Diphtheria   (Germany)

^b Bavarian Health and Food Safety Authority   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

^d KLINIKUM COBURG   (Germany)

^e Landratsamt (District Office) Coburg   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFTRIAXONE; DIPHTHERIA ANTIBODY; ERYTHROMYCIN; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CASE REPORT; CORYNEBACTERIUM INFECTION; CORYNEBACTERIUM ULCERANS; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; LETTER; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PIG FARMING; SWINE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; CORYNEBACTERIUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM INFECTIONS; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; SUS SCROFA; ZOONOSES;

EID: 68049086825     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1508.081568     Document Type: Letter

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