Evidence of episodic positive selection in Corynebacterium diphtheriae complex of species and its implementations in identification of drug and vaccine targets

Background Within the pathogenic bacterial species Corynebacterium genus, six species that can produce diphtheria toxin (C. belfantii, C. diphtheriae, C. pseudotuberculosis, C. rouxii, C. silvaticum and C. ulcerans) form a clade referred to as the C. diphtheria complex. These species have been found...

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Hauptverfasser:	Marcus Vinicius Canário Viana, Rodrigo Profeta, Janaína Canário Cerqueira, Alice Rebecca Wattam, Debmalya Barh, Artur Silva, Vasco Azevedo
Format:	Artigo
Sprache:	Inglês
Veröffentlicht:	PeerJ Inc. 2022-02-01
Schriftenreihe:	PeerJ
Schlagworte:	Corynebacterium Positive selection Drug target Vaccine target
Online-Zugang:	https://peerj.com/articles/12662.pdf
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