Human diphtheria infection from a cat bite

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 155, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 646-648

  Berger, Anja ^a   Schmidt Wieland, Torsten ^b   Huber, Ingrid ^c   Sing, Andreas ^a  

^a National Consiliary Laboratory on Diphtheria   (Germany)

^b Labor Dr Gaertner   (Germany)

^c Bavarian Health and Food Safety Authority   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; CEFTRIAXONE; CLINDAMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; PENICILLIN G; PENICILLIN V; RNA POLYMERASE BETA SUBUNIT; TETRACYCLINE;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BITE; CASE REPORT; CORYNEBACTERIUM ULCERANS; DIABETIC PATIENT; DIPHTHERIA; FEMALE; HAND EDEMA; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; LETTER; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PASTEURELLA MULTOCIDA; PASTEURELLA MULTOCIDA INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOXICITY;

EID: 80055097452     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: 15393704     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-155-9-201111010-00021     Document Type: Letter

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