Genome-wide comparison of Corynebacterium diphtheriae isolates from Australia identifies differences in the Pan-genomes between respiratory and cutaneous strains

BACKGROUND: Corynebacterium diphtheriae is the main etiological agent of diphtheria, a global disease causing life-threatening infections, particularly in infants and children. Vaccination with diphtheria toxoid protects against infection with potent toxin producing strains. However a growing number...

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Autores principales: Timms, Verlaine J., Nguyen, Trang, Crighton, Taryn, Yuen, Marion, Sintchenko, Vitali
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6278121/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30509172
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12864-018-5147-2

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