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Three cases of opportunistic infection caused by propionic acid producingCorynebacterium minutissimum

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Propionic acid producing strains ofCorynebacterium minutissimum were isolated from three patients with opportunistic infections. One neutropenic patient was undergoing chemotherapy for prolymphocytic leukemia; the other two patients were undergoing hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis respectively. An unusual feature of these three strains was their resistance to several antibiotics, which is seldom seen in diphtheroids other thanCorynebacterium jeikeium and CDC group D2.

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  1. Clinique Le Refuge, 7700, Mouscron, Belgium

    B. Van Bosterhaut & R. Cuvelier

  2. Hôpital Universitaire Erasme, 1070, Bruxelles, Belgium

    E. Serruys

  3. Clinique Universitaire de Mont-Godinne, 5530, Yvoir, Belgium

    F. Pouthier

  4. Unité de Microbiologie UCL/5490, Avenue Hippocrate 54, 1200, Bruxelles, Belgium

    G. Wauters

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Van Bosterhaut, B., Cuvelier, R., Serruys, E. et al. Three cases of opportunistic infection caused by propionic acid producingCorynebacterium minutissimum . Eur. J. Clin. Microbiol. Infect. Dis. 11, 628–631 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01961672

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