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SUBMITTER: Hall AJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3321947 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hall Aron J AJ Cassiday Pamela K PK Bernard Kathryn A KA Bolt Frances F Steigerwalt Arnold G AG Bixler Danae D Pawloski Lucia C LC Whitney Anne M AM Iwaki Masaaki M Baldwin Adam A Dowson Christopher G CG Komiya Takako T Takahashi Motohide M Hinrikson Hans P HP Tondella Maria L ML
Emerging infectious diseases 20100401 4
Novel nontoxigenic Corynebacterium diphtheriae was isolated from a domestic cat with severe otitis. Contact investigation and carrier study of human and animal contacts yielded 3 additional, identical isolates from cats, although no evidence of zoonotic transmission was identified. Molecular methods distinguished the feline isolates from known C. diphtheriae. ...[more]