title: [Corynebacterium ulcerans pulmonary infection].
abstract: Corynebacterium ulcerans is a bacterium able to infect humans by inducing a disease close to diphtheria. We describe the case of a 83-year-old patient hospitalized as a matter of urgency in intensive care for which C. ulcerans was isolated in pure culture in its bronchial samples. Even if the isolate was not secreting toxin in vitro, it possesses the tox gene which motivated the use of specific antitoxin serum. After two months of intensive care the patient went out of the service. It is about a remarkable case of clinicobiologic collaboration.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de microbiologie, Centre Hospitalier, Troyes, France.
authors.forename: Maxime
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Thouvenin
authors.affiliation: Service de réanimation, Centre Hospitalier, Troyes, France.
authors.forename: Bassam
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Beilouny
authors.affiliation: Institut Pasteur, Unité de prévention et thérapies moléculaires des maladies humaines, Centre national de référence des Corynebactéries du complexe diphtheriae, Paris, France.
authors.forename: Edgar
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Badell
authors.affiliation: Institut Pasteur, Unité de prévention et thérapies moléculaires des maladies humaines, Centre national de référence des Corynebactéries du complexe diphtheriae, Paris, France.
authors.forename: Nicole
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Guiso
mesh_terms: D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003352:Corynebacterium / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D003354:Corynebacterium Infections / Q000150:complications*; D003422:Critical Care; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D001261:Pulmonary Atelectasis / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000628:therapy; D012141:Respiratory Tract Infections / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000628:therapy; D045169:Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000628:therapy
keywords: Corynebacterium ulcerans; diphteria toxin