Corynebacterium diphtheriae
Clinical and molecular study of Corynebacterium diphtheriae systemic infections in France Coryne Study Group
... involving Corynebacterium diphtheriae were ...C. diphtheriae strains were ...C. diphtheriae biotype ...C. diphtheriae biotype ...C. diphtheriae in the form of systemic ...
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Multilocus sequence types of invasive Corynebacterium diphtheriae isolated in the Rio de Janeiro urban area, Brazil
... by Corynebacterium diphtheriae in vaccinated and non-vaccinated individuals have been reported ...C. diphtheriae are part of a single clonal ...C. diphtheriae isolated in different countries ...
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Carriage of a Single Strain of Nontoxigenic Corynebacterium diphtheriae bv Belfanti (Corynebacterium belfantii) in Four Patients with Cystic Fibrosis
... by Corynebacterium diphtheriae have not been reported so ...C. diphtheriae biovar Belfanti between four patients of a CF ...C. diphtheriae biovar Belfanti (now formally called ...C. ...
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Diphtheria in the Republic of Georgia: Use of Molecular Typing Techniques for Characterization of Corynebacterium diphtheriae Strains
... Sixty-six Corynebacterium diphtheriae strains (62 of the gravis biotype and 4 of the mitis biotype) isolated during the Georgian diphtheria epidemic of 1993 to 1998 and 13 non-Georgian ...C. ...
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Use of Molecular Subtyping To Document Long Term Persistence of Corynebacterium diphtheriae in South Dakota
... toxigenic Corynebacterium diphtheriae of both mitis and gravis biotypes, showing that the organism is still circulating in the United ...C. diphtheriae was isolated from five members of four ...C. ...
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Molecular Characterization of Diphtheria Toxin Repressor (dtxR) Genes Present in Nontoxigenic Corynebacterium diphtheriae Strains Isolated in the United Kingdom
... of Corynebacterium diphtheriae represent a potential reservoir for the emergence of toxigenic ...C. diphtheriae strains if they possessed functional diphtheria toxin repressor (dtxR) ...C. ...
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Comparison of Four Molecular Typing Methods for Characterization of Corynebacterium diphtheriae and Determination of Transcontinental Spread of C diphtheriae Based on BstEII rRNA Gene Profiles
... of Corynebacterium diphtheriae has become a priority in order to be able to monitor the spread of this important pathogen on a global ...C. diphtheriae circulated on different continents of the world ...
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Changes in MLST profiles and biotypes of Corynebacterium diphtheriae isolates from the diphtheria outbreak period to the period of invasive infections caused by nontoxigenic strains in Poland (1950–2016)
... bacterium Corynebacterium diphtheriae inspired fear and was called “the strangling angel” of children because it was a major killer of children occurring in epidemics of diphtheria that resulted in ...
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A Case of Necrotizing Epiglottitis Due to Nontoxigenic Corynebacterium diphtheriae
... abstract Diphtheria is a rare cause of infection in highly vaccinated populations and may not be recognized by modern clinicians. Infections by nontoxigenic Corynebacterium diphtheriae are emerging. We ...
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A SNP based phylogenetic analysis of Corynebacterium diphtheriae in Malaysia
... Corynebacterium diphtheriae is the causative agent for diphtheria, an acute, communicable disease among children, which can be fatal. The disease is transmitted through contact with respiratory droplets ...
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Efficient Discrimination within a Corynebacterium diphtheriae Epidemic Clonal Group by a Novel Macroarray Based Method
... related Corynebacterium diphtheriae strains (ribotypes Sankt-Peterburg and ...C. diphtheriae strain NCTC13129, representative of the epidemic clone ...C. diphtheriae epidemic clone from the ...
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Persistence of a Distinct Corynebacterium diphtheriae Clonal Group within Two Communities in the United States and Canada Where Diphtheria Is Endemic
... 7. Crossley, K., P. Irvine, J. B. Warren, B. K. Lee, and K. Mead. 1979. Tetanus and diphtheria immunity in urban Minnesota adults. JAMA 242:2298–2300. 8. De Zoysa, A., A. Efstratiou, R. C. George, M. Jahkola, J. ...
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Heterogeneity of diphtheria toxin gene, tox, and its regulatory element, dtxR, in Corynebacterium diphtheriae strains causing epidemic diphtheria in Russia and Ukraine
... 72 Corynebacterium diphtheriae strains isolated in Russia and Ukraine before and during the current diphtheria epidemic were studied by PCR-single-strand conformation polymorphism analysis ...C. ...
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Novel Corynebacterium diphtheriae in domestic cats
... of Corynebacterium diphtheriae isolates, including 4 feline isolates from West Virginia, 2008 (ATCC BAA-1774, CD 448, CD 449, CD ...C. diphtheriae biotypes gravis and ...
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Emergence of an Invasive Clone of Nontoxigenic Corynebacterium diphtheriae in the Urban Poor Population of Vancouver, Canada
... C. diphtheriae were sent to the National Microbiology Laboratory of the Public Health Agency of Canada for confirmatory testing by conventional methods, including starch fermentation/utilization ...
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Multilocus Sequence Typing Identifies Evidence for Recombination and Two Distinct Lineages of Corynebacterium diphtheriae
... tance. Based upon their biochemical and morphological prop- erties, four C. diphtheriae biotypes have been identified: mitis, gravis, intermedius, and belfanti (8). Several typing techniques for C. ...
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Adherence and invasive properties of Corynebacterium diphtheriae strains correlates with the predicted membrane-associated and secreted proteome
... C. diphtheriae Of the entire proteome, 559 proteins (14 %) are predicted to be secreted via Sec-dependent, Tat or type VII secretion pathways (Additional file 3: Table ...C. diphtheriae strains (Additional ...
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Regulation of toxinogenesis in Corynebacterium diphtheriae. I. Mutations in bacteriophage beta that alter the effects of iron on toxin production.
... Complementation tests: control of expression of the toxin structural gene by the tox-201 regulatory allele Expt 1 2 Lysogenic bacterial strain C7flox+ Superinfecting phage None C78t°x-2 [r] ...
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Isolation and partial characterization of a corynebacteriophage beta, tox operator constitutive-like mutant lysogen of Corynebacterium diphtheriae.
... Unlike the regulatory gene mutants, the phenotype of the Oc/O+ partial diploids is the constitutive expression of only those structural genes physically linked to the mutant operator; th[r] ...
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Double antibody sandwich enzyme linked immunosorbent assay for rapid detection of toxin producing Corynebacterium diphtheriae
... The plates were then reacted with mouse monoclonal diphtheria antitoxin 17.6, 0.1 ,ug/ml A or various concentrations B, followed by incubation with labeled anti-mouse IgG diluted 1: 1,00[r] ...
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