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Corynebacterium minutissimum infection: erythrasma

Deshan F Sebaratnam and Stephen Lee
Med J Aust 2017; 207 (5): . || doi: 10.5694/mja16.01081
Published online: 4 September 2017

A 68-year-old man presented with a 4-month history of mildly pruritic, well circumscribed, red-brown plaques with overlying scale affecting the axillary and inguinal regions (Figure, A). Wood lamp examination showed vivid coral pink fluorescence (Figure, B) suggestive of erythrasma. Corynebacterium minutissimum infection was confirmed through bacterial culture.


  • 1 Westmead Hospital, Sydney, NSW
  • 2 Skin and Cancer Foundation Australia, Sydney, NSW
  • 3 Concord Repatriation General Hospital, Sydney, NSW


Correspondence: d.sebaratnam@hotmail.com

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