Article
Genomic epidemiology and strain taxonomy of <i>Corynebacterium diphtheriae</i>
2021-07-20
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<h4>Background</h4> Corynebacterium diphtheriae is highly transmissible and can cause large diphtheria outbreaks where vaccination coverage is insufficient. Sporadic cases or small clusters are observed in high-vaccination settings. The phylogeography and short timescale evolution of C. diphtheriae are not well understood, in part due to a lack of harmonized analytical approaches of genomic surveillance and stra...
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- Literature Corpus work
- af595858-b98f-539d-9946-141dcce2b8ad
- DOI
- 10.1101/2021.07.18.452871
