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Corynebacterium minutissimum infection
1Central Microbiological Laboratories, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, U.K.
The Journal of Infection
|July 1, 1991
Abstract:
Two cases of infection due to Corynebacterium minutissimum are described. On the basis of biochemical tests the organisms were thought at first to be Corynebacterium jeikeium. Methods of distinguishing between these species and the role of C. minutissimum in the pathogenesis of erythrasma and other skin infections are discussed.