Genomic analysis of endemic clones of toxigenic and non-toxigenic Corynebacterium diphtheriae in Belarus during and after the major epidemic in 1990s

BACKGROUND: Diphtheria remains a major public health concern with multiple recent outbreaks around the world. Moreover, invasive non-toxigenic strains have emerged globally causing severe infections. A diphtheria epidemic in the former Soviet Union in the 1990s resulted in ~5000 deaths. In this stud...

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Autores principales: Grosse-Kock, Steffen, Kolodkina, Valentina, Schwalbe, Edward C., Blom, Jochen, Burkovski, Andreas, Hoskisson, Paul A., Brisse, Sylvain, Smith, Darren, Sutcliffe, Iain C., Titov, Leonid, Sangal, Vartul
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5683216/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29132312
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12864-017-4276-3

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