Diphtheria with a difference--a rare Corynebacterium fatality with associated apoptotic cell death.
A case of infection with Corynebacterium ulcerans (C. ulcerans), resulted in the sudden death of a previously healthy 73-year-old woman. Death from Corynebacterium diphtheriae (C. diphtheriae) infection is well-documented. Fatalities following infection with C. ulcerans are unreported; this would appear to be the first documented death due to such infection.
Leek
M D
MD
Department of Forensic Medicine, University of Leeds, UK.
Sivaloganathan
S
S
Devaraj
S K
SK
Zamiri
I
I
Griffiths
G D
GD
Green
M A
MA
D000368:Aged; D003354:Corynebacterium Infections / Q000401:mortality* / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans