Cutaneous Corynebacterium Diphtheriae: A Traveller’s Disease?
A Canadian soldier incurred a nonhealing traumatic skin ulcer while on duty in Somalia. The diagnosis of localized cutaneous diphtheria was confirmed by isolation of a toxigenic strain of Corynebacterium diphtheriae from the ulcer. The patient was placed in isolation and treated with erythromycin an...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Hindawi Limited
1995-01-01
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| Series: | Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases |
| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/1995/646325 |