Corynebacterium ulcerans 0102 carries the gene encoding diphtheria toxin on a prophage different from the C. diphtheriae NCTC 13129 prophage

BACKGROUND: Corynebacterium ulcerans can cause a diphtheria-like illness, especially when the bacterium is lysogenized with a tox gene-carrying bacteriophage that produces diphtheria toxin. Acquisition of toxigenicity upon phage lysogenization is a common feature of C. ulcerans and C. diphtheriae. H...

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Autori principali: Sekizuka, Tsuyoshi, Yamamoto, Akihiko, Komiya, Takako, Kenri, Tsuyoshi, Takeuchi, Fumihiko, Shibayama, Keigo, Kuroda, Makoto, Iwaki, Masaaki
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Lingua:Inglês
Pubblicazione: BioMed Central 2012
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Accesso online:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3406963/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22583953
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2180-12-72
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