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Diphtheria Epidemiology
Study findings from Pasteur Institute provide new insights into diphtheria epidemiology
February 25th, 2009
New research, 'Corynebacterium diphtheriae: genome diversity, population structure and genotyping perspectives,' is the subject of a report. "The epidemic re-emergence of diphtheria in Russia and the Newly Independent States (NIS) of the former Soviet Union in the 1990s demonstrated the continued threat of this thought to be rare disease. The bacteriophage encoded toxin is a main virulence factor of Corynebacterium diphtheriae, however, an analysis of the first complete genome sequence of C. diphtheriae revealed a recent acquisition of other pathogenicity factors including iron-uptake systems, adhesins and fimbrial proteins as indeed this extracellular pathogen has more...
Source: Vaccine Weekly (2009-02-25)
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