1. Erysipeloid infection in a sheep farmer with coexisting orf.
- Author
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Connor MP and Green AD
- Subjects
- Administration, Oral, Agricultural Workers' Diseases drug therapy, Animals, Ecthyma, Contagious drug therapy, Ecthyma, Contagious microbiology, England, Erysipelothrix Infections drug therapy, Erysipelothrix Infections microbiology, Humans, Injections, Intravenous, Male, Middle Aged, Penicillin G therapeutic use, Penicillins administration & dosage, Penicillins therapeutic use, Sheep, Zoonoses, Agricultural Workers' Diseases microbiology, Ecthyma, Contagious complications, Erysipelothrix Infections complications
- Abstract
Erysipeloid is a rarely reported zoonotic infection caused by Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae. We report a case of coexisting erysipeloid and orf infections in a sheep farmer, an association not previously recorded to our knowledge.
- Published
- 1995
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