%0 Journal Article %A Bygott, Jeanine M. %A Malnick, Henry %A Shah, Jayesh J. %A Chattaway, Marie A. %A Karas, J. Andreas %T First clinical case of Corynebacterium auriscanis isolated from localized dog bite infection %D 2008 %J Journal of Medical Microbiology, %V 57 %N 7 %P 899-900 %@ 1473-5644 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/jmm.0.47780-0 %I Microbiology Society, %X Corynebacterium auriscanis has only previously been isolated from dogs and to our knowledge no cases of zoonotic transmission to humans have been reported. A case of a leg wound infection following a dog bite in a previously healthy human patient is described and confirms this organism to be a potential human pathogen. %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/jmm/10.1099/jmm.0.47780-0