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A serious respiratory tract infection due to Corynebacterium ulcerans was observed in a 70-year-old woman. Clinical presentation included pseudomembranes in the upper respiratory tract and lung involvement. C. ulcerans was recovered from the nose of the patient’s dog. Both dog’s and patient’s isolates belonged to Sequence Type 331.
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We are grateful to Marco Pataracchia for his technical expertise and to Norma Arrigoni for her useful suggestions. This study was supported in part by the Ministry of Health (programma CCM).
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The original version of this article was revised: Owing to an unfortunate error in typesetting, the correct term “diphtheria” was replaced by “diphtheriae” throughout the text of this article.
An erratum to this article is available at https://doi.org/10.1007/s15010-017-1045-9.
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Monaco, M., Sacchi, A.R., Scotti, M. et al. Respiratory diphtheria due to Corynebacterium ulcerans transmitted by a companion dog, Italy 2014. Infection 45, 903–905 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s15010-017-1040-1
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