Misidentification of toxigenic Corynebacterium diphtheriae as a Corynebacterium species with low virulence in a child with endocarditis.

A 6-year-old boy presented to a university hospital in Malaysia with infective endocarditis complicating cyanotic congenital heart disease. Blood cultures showed a gram-positive, aerobic, coryneform-like bacillus identified by the hospital laboratory as Corynebacterium xerosis, but a reference labor...

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Publicado no:	J Clin Microbiol
Principais autores:	Pennie, R A, Malik, A S, Wilcox, L
Formato:	Artigo
Idioma:	Inglês
Publicado em:	American Society for Microbiology (ASM) 1996
Assuntos:	Research Article
Acesso em linha:	https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttps://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC228996/ https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttps://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8727917/ https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttps://doi.org/10.1128/jcm.34.5.1275-1276.1996
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