Clinical characteristics of patients with granulomatous lobular mastitis associated with Corynebacterium parakroppenstedtii infection and drug sensitivity analysis of the isolated strains

• Main Authors: Yifei Zeng (Author), Mengjie Wang (Author), Xiang Gao (Author), Dongxiao Zhang (Author), Na Fu (Author), Wenjie Zhao (Author), Qiao Huang (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2024-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background It is presently considered that Corynebacterium especially Corynebacterium kroppenstedtii (CK) infection, is one of the important causes of granulomatous lobular mastitis (GLM). However, the pathogen of mastitis in the past two years has been identified as a newly discovered Cory...