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Frontiers in Microbiology, 2018 Corynebacterium diphtheriae is the etiological agent of diphtheria, a disease caused by the presence of the diphtheria toxin. However, an increasing number of records report non-toxigenic C. diphtheriae infections. Here, a C.
Florian Tagini +7 more
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BMC Infectious Diseases, 2020 Background Diphtheria outbreaks occurred in endemic areas and imported and indigenous cases are reported in UE/EEA. Because of the high infectiveness and severity of the disease, early and accurate diagnosis of each suspected case is essential for the ...
Aleksandra A. Zasada +8 more
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Novel Corynebacterium diphtheriae in Domestic Cats
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2010 Novel nontoxigenic Corynebacterium diphtheriae was isolated from a domestic cat with severe otitis. Contact investigation and carrier study of human and animal contacts yielded 3 additional, identical isolates from cats, although no evidence of zoonotic ...
Aron J. Hall +14 more
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Sri Lankan Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2011 Diphtheria is a nearly eradicated disease in Sri Lanka. After introduction of EPI vaccination program in 1978 childhood diphtheria has been eradicated.
Rohitha Jayamaha
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BMC Research Notes, 2019 Objectives In frame of a study to characterize the interaction of human macrophage-like cells with pathogenic corynebacteria, Corynebacterium diphtheriae and Corynebacterium ulcerans, live cell imaging experiments were carried out and time lapse ...
Dulanthi Weerasekera +3 more
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Sequence Analysis of Toxin Gene–Bearing Corynebacterium diphtheriae Strains, Australia
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2017 By conducting a molecular characterization of Corynebacterium diphtheriae strains in Australia, we identified novel sequences, nonfunctional toxin genes, and 5 recent cases of toxigenic cutaneous diphtheria.
Christine J. Doyle +5 more
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Diphtheria: A case series from West Maharashtra, India
Journal of Medical Sciences and Health, 2022 Diphtheria is an acute infectious toxin mediated disease caused by Corynebacterium diphtheriae. Effective vaccination has decreased the incidence of disease globally. However, despite of a full-fledged Universal Immunization Programme, the cases
Snehal Patil +3 more
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Multivariate cluster point process to quantify and explore multi-entity configurations: Application to biofilm image data [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 Clusters of similar or dissimilar objects are encountered in many fields. Frequently used approaches treat the central object of each cluster as latent. Yet, often objects of one or more types cluster around objects of another type. Such arrangements are common in biomedical images of cells, in which nearby cell types likely interact.
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Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2023 Introdução/objetivo: A difteria é uma toxiinfecção aguda que se apresenta na forma respiratória e/ou cutânea, e que pode ser fatal devido à ação da toxina diftérica (TD).
Lincoln de Oliveira Sant'Anna +8 more
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Severe Pneumonia Caused by Toxigenic Corynebacterium ulcerans Infection, Japan
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2018 Corynebacterium ulcerans infection was recently recognized as a zoonosis. We present 2 cases of severe pneumonia complicated by diffuse pseudomembrane formation on the bronchus caused by C. ulcerans–producing diphtheria toxin.
Ikkoh Yasuda +12 more
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