Lauren M. Weil, Margaret M. Williams, Tahmina Shirin, Marlon Lawrence et al.
BACKGROUND: Diphtheria, a life-threatening respiratory disease, is caused mainly by toxin-producing strains of Corynebacterium diphtheriae, while nontoxigenic corynebacteria (eg, Corynebacterium pseudodiphtheriticum) rarely causes diphtheria-like illness. Recently, global diphtheria outbreaks have r...
Lingzi Xiaoli, Yanhui Peng, Margaret M. Williams, Marlon Lawrence et al.
Respiratory diphtheria is a serious infection caused by toxigenic Corynebacterium diphtheriae , and disease transmission mainly occurs through respiratory droplets. Between 2017 and 2019, a large diphtheria outbreak among forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals densely settled in Bangladesh was investi...
Lingzi Xiaoli, Yanhui Peng, Margaret M. Williams, Pamela K. Cassiday et al.
This report describes the complete genome sequences of four isolates of the nondiphtheritic Corynebacterium (NDC) species Corynebacterium pseudodiphtheriticum and Corynebacterium propinquum , recovered during investigation of a large diphtheria outbreak in Bangladesh. These data will assist in bette...