Detection of differences in the nucleotide and amino acid sequences of diphtheria toxin from Corynebacterium diphtheriae and Corynebacterium ulcerans causing extrapharyngeal infections

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 4848-4851

  Sing, Andreas ^a,b   Hogardt, Michael ^b   Bierschenk, Suse ^b   Heesemann, Jürgen ^a  

^a Natl Consiliary Lab on Diphtheria   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIPHTHERIA TOXIN;

ADULT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CASE REPORT; CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTHERIAE; CORYNEBACTERIUM ULCERANS; DIPHTHERIA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPERNATANT; TOX GENE; WOUND INFECTION;

ADULT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CORYNEBACTERIUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTHERIAE; CORYNEBACTERIUM INFECTIONS; DIPHTHERIA TOXIN; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHARYNGITIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SINUSITIS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CORYNEBACTERIUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTHERIAE; CORYNEBACTERIUM ULCERANS; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 0141923742     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.41.10.4848-4851.2003     Document Type: Article

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