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J Med Microbiol 57 (2008), 899-900; DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.47780-0
© 2008 Society for General Microbiology
ISSN 1473-5644

Case Report

First clinical case of Corynebacterium auriscanis isolated from localized dog bite infection

Jeanine M. Bygott1, Henry Malnick2, Jayesh J. Shah2, Marie A. Chattaway3 and J. Andreas Karas1

1 Clinical Microbiology & Public Health Laboratory, Health Protection Agency East of England, Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, UK

2 Laboratory of HealthCare Associated Infection, Health Protection Agency Centre for Infections, London, UK

3 Molecular Identification Services Unit, Health Protection Agency Centre for Infections, London, UK

Correspondence
Jeanine M. Bygott
jmbygott{at}doctors.org.uk

Received 26 November 2007
Accepted 18 February 2008

Corynebacterium auriscanis has only previously been isolated from dogs and to our knowledge no cases of zoonotic transmission to humans have been reported. A case of a leg wound infection following a dog bite in a previously healthy human patient is described and confirms this organism to be a potential human pathogen.






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