Non-toxigenic Corynebacterium diphtheriae cutaneous infections among two injecting drug-users with HIV/Tuberculosis coinfection from Bucharest, Romania

New Microbes New Infect. 2024 Mar 16:58:101239. doi: 10.1016/j.nmni.2024.101239. eCollection 2024 Apr.

Simin Aysel Florescu^{1

2}, Irina C Ianache^{1

2}, Claudia Chirila¹, Bianca Georgiana Enciu^{2

3}, Mihaela Oprea⁴, Sorin Dinu⁴, Anca Sirbu^{2

4}, Maria Nica^{1

2}, Corneliu Petru Popescu^{1

2}, Cristiana Oprea^{1

2}, Luminița Ene¹

¹ "Dr. Victor Babes" Hospital for Infectious and Tropical Diseases Bucharest, Romania.
² Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania.
³ National Centre for Communicable Diseases Surveillance and Control, National Institute of Public Health, Bucharest, Romania.
⁴ Cantacuzino National Military Medical Institute for Research and Development, Bucharest, Romania.

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Keywords: Cutaneous diphtheria; HIV; Injecting drug users; Tuberculosis.