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  3. Corynebacterium ulcerans diphtheria: an emerging zoonosis in Brazil and worldwide

Corynebacterium ulcerans diphtheria: an emerging zoonosis in Brazil and worldwide

  • Rev Saude Publica. 2011 Dec;45(6):1176-91. doi: 10.1590/s0034-89102011000600021.
Alexandre Alves de Souza de Oliveira Dias 1,  Louisy Sanchez Santos,  Priscila Soares Sabbadini,  Cíntia Silva Santos,  Feliciano Correa Silva Junior,  Fátima Napoleão,  Prescilla Emy Nagao,  Maria Helena Simões Villas-Bôas,  Raphael Hirata Junior,  Ana Luíza Mattos Guaraldi
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Affiliation

  • 1 Departamento de Imunologia, Instituto Nacional de Controle e Controle de Qualidade em Saúde, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. [email protected] ocruz.br
PMID: 22124745 DOI: 10.1590/s0034-89102011000600021
Abstract

The article is a literature review on the emergence of human infections caused by Corynebacterium ulcerans in many countries including Brazil. Articles in Medline/PubMed and SciELO databases published between 1926 and 2011 were reviewed, as well as articles and reports of the Brazilian Ministry of Health. It is presented a fast, cost-effective and easy to perform screening test for the presumptive diagnosis of C. ulcerans and C. diphtheriae infections in most Brazilian public and private laboratories. C. ulcerans spread in many countries and recent isolation of this pathogen in Rio de Janeiro, southeastern Brazil, is a warning to clinicians, veterinarians, and microbiologists on the occurrence of zoonotic diphtheria and C. ulcerans dissemination in urban and rural areas of Brazil and/or Latin America.

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