title: Corynebacterium ulcerans diphtheria: an emerging zoonosis in Brazil and worldwide.
abstract: The article is a literature review on the emergence of human infections caused by Corynebacterium ulcerans in many countries including Brazil. Articles in Medline/PubMed and SciELO databases published between 1926 and 2011 were reviewed, as well as articles and reports of the Brazilian Ministry of Health. It is presented a fast, cost-effective and easy to perform screening test for the presumptive diagnosis of C. ulcerans and C. diphtheriae infections in most Brazilian public and private laboratories. C. ulcerans spread in many countries and recent isolation of this pathogen in Rio de Janeiro, southeastern Brazil, is a warning to clinicians, veterinarians, and microbiologists on the occurrence of zoonotic diphtheria and C. ulcerans dissemination in urban and rural areas of Brazil and/or Latin America.
authors: Departamento de Imunologia, Instituto Nacional de Controle e Controle de Qualidade em Saúde, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. alexandre.dias@incqs.fi ocruz.br
authors: Alexandre Alves de Souza de Oliveira
authors: AA
authors: Dias
authors: Louisy Sanchez
authors: LS
authors: Santos
authors: Priscila Soares
authors: PS
authors: Sabbadini
authors: Cíntia Silva
authors: CS
authors: Santos
authors: Feliciano Correa
authors: FC
authors: Silva Junior
authors: Fátima
authors: F
authors: Napoleão
authors: Prescilla Emy
authors: PE
authors: Nagao
authors: Maria Helena Simões
authors: MH
authors: Villas-Bôas
authors: Raphael
authors: R
authors: Hirata Junior
authors: Ana Luíza Mattos
authors: AL
authors: Guaraldi
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001938:Brazil / Q000453:epidemiology; D019411:Clinical Laboratory Techniques; D021821:Communicable Diseases, Emerging / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology; D003352:Corynebacterium / Q000145:classification*; D003354:Corynebacterium Infections / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology*; D003353:Corynebacterium diphtheriae / Q000302:isolation & purification; D004165:Diphtheria / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000382:microbiology; D018563:Disease Notification; D058872:Epidemics; D014943:Global Health; D006801:Humans; D015047:Zoonoses / Q000453:epidemiology*