Corynebacterium diphtheriae and Related Toxigenic Species Genomics, Pathogenicity and Applications /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Burkovski, Andreas (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Medical microbiology.; Parasitology.; Epidemiology.; Bacteriology.; Microbial genetics.; Microbial genomics.; Biomedicine.; Medical Microbiology.; Microbial Genetics and Genomics.

Corynebacterium diphtheriae is the classical etiological agent of diphtheria and the type strain of the genus Corynebacterium. While diphtheria of the respiratory tract became rare with the introduction of vaccination programs in industrialized countries, even today several thousand cases per year a...