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- Title
Toxigenic Corynebacterium diphtheriae-Associated Genital Ulceration.
- Authors
Fuchs, Frieder; Markert, Derya; Wagner, Isabel V.; Liebau, Max C.; Berger, Anja; Dangel, Alexandra; Sing, Andreas; Fabri, Mario; Plum, Georg
- Abstract
In October 2016, an adolescent boy sought care for acute genital ulceration in Cologne, Germany. We presumed a sexually transmitted infection, but initial diagnostic procedures yielded negative results. He was hospitalized because swab samples from the lesion grew toxigenic Corynebacterium diphtheriae, leading to the diagnosis of possibly sexually transmitted cutaneous diphtheria.
- Subjects
COLOGNE (Germany); GERMANY; CORYNEBACTERIUM; SEXUALLY transmitted diseases; TEENAGE boys; DIPHTHERIA; GENITALIA; GRAM-positive bacteria
- Publication
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2020, Vol 26, Issue 9, p2180
- ISSN
1080-6040
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.3201/eid2609.180830