Cutaneous infection caused by Corynebacterium pseudodiphtheriticum: a microbiological report


Autoria(s): Cantarelli,Vlademir Vicente; Brodt,Teresa Cristina Z.; Secchi,Carina; Inamine,Everton; Pereira,Fabiana de Souza
Data(s)

01/02/2008

Resumo

We report here a rare case of cutaneous infection due to Corynebacterium pseudodiphtheriticum. The patient presented to the clinical laboratory with a skin ulcer on his left leg. Gram-stained preparation of the purulent secretion revealed the presence of numerous rod-shaped Gram-positive organisms in the absence of any other species. The organism was grown in pure culture on sheep blood agar and was further identified as C. pseudodiphtheriticum using a commercial identification system (API-Coryne, BioMérieux, France). The infection was successfully treated with ciprofloxacin. This case emphasizes the importance of the clinical microbiology laboratory in correctly identifying Gram-positive organisms obtained in pure culture from skin ulcers.

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en

Publicador

Instituto de Medicina Tropical

Fonte

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo v.50 n.1 2008

Palavras-Chave #Corynebacterium pseudodiphtheriticum #Cutaneous infection #Skin ulcer #Skin pathogens
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journal article