Short communication: Possible zoonotic transmission of toxigenic Corynebactehum ulcerans from companion animals in a human case of fatal diphtheria

Veterinary Record

Volumn 165, Issue 23, 2009, Pages 691-692

  Hogg, R A ^a   Wessels, J ^a   Hart, J ^b   Efstratiou, A ^c   De Zoysa, A ^c   Mann, G ^c   Allen, T ^d   Pritchard, G C ^a  

^a VETERINARY LABORATORIES AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH WALES   (United Kingdom)

^c PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^d ROYAL PRESTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; DIPHTHERIA TOXIN;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CASE REPORT; CORYNEBACTERIUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM INFECTION; DIPHTHERIA; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DOG; DOG DISEASE; DRUG EFFECT; FATALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CORYNEBACTERIUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM INFECTIONS; DIPHTHERIA; DIPHTHERIA TOXIN; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; ZOONOSES;

EID: 73249122624     PISSN: 00424900     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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