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Corynebacterium ulcerans infection from a cat

By Scott Weese on September 3, 2011
Posted in Cats

The latest edition of Emerging Infectious Diseases (Berger et al 2011) describes a case of Corynebacterium ulcerans infection in a women that was likely acquired from her cat.

Corynebacterium ulcerans is a bacterium that’s related to C. diphtheriae, the cause of diphtheria. Some strains of C. ulcerans can produce toxins that…

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