title: Diphtheria with a difference--a rare Corynebacterium fatality with associated apoptotic cell death.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Forensic Medicine, University of Leeds, UK.
authors.forename: M D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Leek
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sivaloganathan
authors.forename: S K
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Devaraj
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Zamiri
authors.forename: G D
authors.initials: GD
authors.lastname: Griffiths
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Green
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003354:Corynebacterium Infections / Q000401:mortality* / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans