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The first case of septicemia due to nontoxigenic
Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials, 2005 Background Toxigenic strains of Corynebacterium diphtheriae are well known agent of diphtheria. Nontoxigenic strains can cause atypical course of the disease. Invasive diseases caused by C. diphtheriae occur very rare. Case presentation We have described
Podlasin Regina +3 more
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Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, 2020 BACKGROUND Diphtheria is mainly caused by diphtheria-toxin-producing strains of Corynebacterium diphtheriae and Corynebacterium ulcerans. The recommended first-line antibiotic is penicillin or erythromycin, but reliable susceptibility data are scarce ...
D. Marosevic +5 more
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Indonesian Biomedical Journal, 2018 BACKGROUND: Diptheria cases are treated with both anti-diphtheria serum (ADS) and antibiotics. Penicillin and erythromycin are the primary choices for any Corynebacterium diphtheriae (C. diphtheriae) infection.
Kambang Sariadji +3 more
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Characterization of OxyR as a negative transcriptional regulator that represses catalase production in Corynebacterium diphtheriae. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 Corynebacterium diphtheriae and Corynebacterium glutamicum each have one gene (cat) encoding catalase. In-frame Δcat mutants of C. diphtheriae and C. glutamicum were hyper-sensitive to growth inhibition and killing by H(2)O(2). In C.
Ju-Sim Kim, Randall K Holmes
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Non-toxigenic Corynebacterium diphtheriae infective endocarditis with embolic events: a case report
BMC Infectious Diseases, 2020 Background Corynebacterium diphtheriae ( C. diphtheriae ) infections, usually related to upper airways involvement, could be highly invasive. Especially in developing countries, non-toxigenic C.
A. de Santis +14 more
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New Microbes and New Infections, 2019 The genome of a novel nontoxigenic Corynebacterium diphtheriae, strain 5015, isolated from a patient with adenoid cystic carcinoma was sequenced and compared with 117 publically available genomes.
N.D. Ramdhan +7 more
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Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2020 Respiratory illness caused by Corynebacterium diphtheriae and C. ulcerans, and use of diphtheria anti-toxin in the United States, 1996-2018. BACKGROUND Respiratory diphtheria is a toxin-mediated disease caused by Corynebacterium diphtheriae. Diphtheria-
John O. Otshudiema +5 more
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COMPOSITION OF POPULATION OF DIPHTHERIA CAUSATIVE AGENT STRAINS IN RUSSIA
Журнал микробиологии, эпидемиологии и иммунобиологии, 2016 Aim. Characteristics of clonal composition of Corynebacterium diphtheriae strain populatior in Russia using MLST, as well as evaluation of a possibility of using of this method during execution of monitoring of diphtheria infection causative agent ...
I. A. Chagina +11 more
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Infection and Drug Resistance, 2022 Wei Sun,* Liyan Ma,* Yana Li, Ying Xu, Jingjuan Wei, Lei Sa, Xinxin Chen, Jianrong Su Department of Clinical Laboratory, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, 100050, People’s Republic of China*These authors ...
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A case of Corynebacterium diphtheriae infection of the paranasal sinuses
Otolaryngology Case Reports, 2022 Background: Corynebacterium diphtheriae may cause respiratory or cutaneous infections, often with the formation of a pseudo-membrane in the tonsils, pharynx, nasopharynx, or larynx.
Karena Zhao +2 more
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