Spatiotemporal persistence of multiple, diverse clades and toxins of Corynebacterium diphtheriae
Diphtheria is a respiratory disease caused by the bacterium Corynebacterium diphtheriae. Although the development of a toxin-based vaccine in the 1930s has allowed a high level of control over the disease, cases have increased in recent years. Here, we describe the genomic variation of 502 C. diphth...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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Springer Nature
2021
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