ArticleBMC research notes2016
Toxigenic Corynebacterium ulcerans isolated from a wild bird (ural owl) and its feed (shrew-moles): comparison of molecular types with human isolates.
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- Toxigenic Corynebacterium ulcerans in raw milk of a cow with acute mastitis: case report and historical review on milk-transmitted diphtheria.Infection · 2025Review
- Comparative whole-genome analysis of diphtheria toxin-producing Corynebacterium ulcerans isolates from sheltered cats in Osaka, Japan.The Journal of veterinary medical science · 2023Article
- Corynebacteria of theMicrobiology spectrum · 2023Article
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- Limitations of Ribotyping as Genotyping Method for Corynebacterium ulcerans.Emerging infectious diseases · 2020Article
- Tox-positive Corynebacterium ulcerans in hedgehogs, GermanyEmerging microbes & infections · 2019Article
- Severe Pneumonia Caused by Toxigenic Corynebacterium ulcerans Infection, Japan.Emerging infectious diseases · 2018Article
- The first fatal case ofJMM case reports · 2017Article
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Abstract
backgroundCorynebacterium ulcerans is a pathogen causing diphtheria-like illness to humans. In contrast to diphtheria by Corynebacterium diphtheriae circulating mostly among humans, C. ulcerans infection is zoonotic. The present study aimed to clarify how a zoonotic pathogen C. ulcerans circulates among wild birds and animals.
resultsBy screening 380 birds, a single strain of toxigenic C. ulcerans was isolated from a carnivorous bird, ural owl (Strix uralensis). The bacterium was also isolated from two individuals of Japanese shrew-mole (Urotrichus talpoides), a food preference of the owl. Analysis by ribotyping showed that the owl and mole isolates were classified in a group, suggesting that C. ulcerans can be transmissible among wild birds and their prey animals. Moreover, our isolates were found to belong to a group of previously reported C. ulcerans isolates from dogs and a cat, which are known to serve as sources for human infection.
conclusionThe findings suggest that the shrew-mole may be a potential reservoir of a zoonotic pathogen C. ulcerans.
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