Human Lymphadenitis Due to Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis: Report of Ten Cases from Australia and Review

M. Peel, Margaret; Palmer, Graham; M. Stacpoole, A.; G. Kerr, T.

doi:10.1093/clinids/24.2.185

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Human Lymphadenitis Due to Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis: Report of Ten Cases from Australia and Review

Published in Clinical Infectious Diseases • Feb 1, 1997

Authors:

Margaret M. Peel

Graham Palmer

A. M. Stacpoole

Abstract

Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis commonly causes caseous lymphadenitis in Australian sheep. We describe 10 cases of human lymphadenitis due to C. pseudotuberculosis; in all cases, isolates were submitted to a reference laboratory in Victoria, Australia. Most of the patients were occupationally exp...

Subject

Caseous lymphadenitis

Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis

Medicine

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