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Central Venous Catheter-Related Corynebacterium minutissimum Bacteremia
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 January 2015
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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