Canada's First Case of a Multidrug-Resistant Corynebacterium diphtheriae Strain, Isolated from a Skin Abscess
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- 1 November 2011
- journal article
- case report
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Clinical Microbiology
- Vol. 49 (11) , 4003-4005
Abstract
A toxigenicCorynebacterium diphtheriaebiovar mitis sequence type 136 (ST136) strain was recovered from a toe infection of an unvaccinated patient recently returned from India. The isolate was resistant to clindamycin, erythromycin (ermXpositive), tetracycline, and trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole, intermediate to ceftriaxone and cefotaxime, and had high MICs for telithromycin and chloramphenicol but was sensitive to other drugs.Keywords
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