A pyoderma that is a milder form of diphtheria restricted to the skin producing shallow skin ulcers is caused by direct physical contact of indivduals infected with Corynebacterium diphtheriae as the bacteria releases the diphtheria toxin. (Human Disease Ontology, DOID_12275)
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1 genes co-occuring with the disease cutaneous diphtheria in abstracts of biomedical publications from the DISEASES Text-mining Gene-Disease Assocation Evidence Scores dataset.