An unusual case of post-trauma polymicrobial cutaneous diphtheria.
We report a rare case of post-traumatic cutaneous diphtheria in a patient referred from a hospital in rural India. The diagnosis of cutaneous diphtheria was confirmed by the isolation of Corynebacterium diphtheriae cultured from the ulcer of the leg, along with Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus p...
| Publicado en: | Infection Vol. 47; no. 6; pp. 1055 - 1058 |
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Springer Nature
Dec2019
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