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Central Venous Catheter-Related Corynebacterium minutissimum Bacteremia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Mark E. Rupp ,
Karen G. Stiles ,
Stefano Tarantolo  and
Richard V. Goering
Mark E. Rupp*
Affiliation:
Department of Internal Medicine, Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, Nebraska
Karen G. Stiles
Affiliation:
Department of Pathology and Microbiology, Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, Nebraska
Stefano Tarantolo
Affiliation:
Department of Internal Medicine, Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, Nebraska
Richard V. Goering
Affiliation:
The University of Nebraska Medical Center; the Department of Medical Microbiology, Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, Nebraska
*
University of Nebraska Medical Center, 600 S 42nd St, Omaha, NE 68198-5400
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Abstract

Although Corynebacterium minutissimum is well-known as the cause of erythrasma, it is noted as the etiologic agent of nondermatologic disease only rarely. We document this organism as a cause of central venous catheter-associated bacteremia and report the use of pulsed-field gel electrophoresis to characterize its molecular epidemiology

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Concise Communications
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 19 , Issue 10 , October 1998 , pp. 786 - 788
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1998

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