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Analysis of heterogeneity of Corynebacterium diphtheriae toxin gene, tox, and its regulatory element, dtxR, by direct sequencing.
Research in microbiology - 1 Jan 1997
Nakao H, Mazurova I K, Glushkevich T, Popovic T
Abstract excerpt
The largest diphtheria outbreak in the developed world since the 1960s is in progress in the Russian Federation. Seventy-two Corynebacterium diphtheriae strains from throughout Russia and the Ukraine, selected for temporal and geographic diversity, and 6 reference and control strains were assayed by DNA direct sequencing, and DNA sequences of their diphtheria toxin gene, tox, and the regulatory dtxR gene, were...
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