Human infections with toxigenic Corynebacterium ulcerans cause respiratory diphtheria-like illness. It can be fatal in unvaccinated patients and usually occur in adults, who consumed raw milk or had close contact with domestic animals. These C. ulcerans strains produce a diphtheria toxin, which is similar to that of C. diphtheriae, the causative agent of classical diphtheria.
Category
Bacterial infectious disease
Brite
Human diseases in ICD-11 classification [BR:br08403]
01 Certain infectious or parasitic diseases
Other bacterial diseases
1C17 Diphtheria
H01051 Corynebacterium ulcerans infection
Genome-based classification of infectious diseases [BR:br08401]
Bacterial infections
Infections caused by actinobacteria
H01051 Corynebacterium ulcerans infection
