Spatiotemporal persistence of multiple, diverse clades and toxins of Corynebacterium diphtheriae
Publication: Nature Communications
Robert C. Will, Thandavarayan Ramamurthy, Naresh Chand Sharma, Balaji Veeraraghavan, Lucky Sangal, Pradeep Haldar, Agila Kumari Pragasam, Karthick Vasudevan, Dhirendra Kumar, Bhabatosh Das, Eva Heinz, Vyacheslav Melnikov, Stephen Baker, Vartul Sangal, Gordon Dougan & Ankur Mutreja
8 March 2021
Summary
Diphtheria is a highly contagious infection that can affect the nose and throat, and sometimes the skin.
In a study published in Nature Communications, an international team of researchers analysed the genomes of 61 bacteria isolated from patients and combining these with 441 publicly available genomes. They used this information to assess the presence of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) genes and assess toxin variation. Read the full story.