First clinical case of Corynebacterium auriscanis isolated from localized dog bite infection Bygott, Jeanine M. and Malnick, Henry and Shah, Jayesh J. and Chattaway, Marie A. and Karas, J. Andreas,, 57, 899-900 (2008), doi = https://doi.org/10.1099/jmm.0.47780-0, publicationName = Microbiology Society, issn = 0022-2615, abstract= 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., language=, type=