Nontoxigenic Corynebacterium Diphtheriae: an Emerging Pathogen in England and Wales?

Overview

Journal Emerg Infect Dis

Specialty Infectious Diseases

Date 2000 Nov 15

PMID 11076724

Citations 14

Authors

Mark Reacher

Mary Ramsay

Joanne White

Aruni De Zoysa

Androulla Efstratiou

Gina Mann

Andrew Mackay

Robert C George

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Abstract

Confirmed isolates of nontoxigenic Corynebacterium diphtheriae in England and Wales increased substantially from 1986 to 1994. Ribotyping of 121 isolates confirmed in 1995 showed that 90 were of a single strain isolated exclusively from the throat; none had previously been identified in toxigenic strains from U.K. or non-U.K. residents. The upward trend in nontoxigenic C. diphtheriae probably represented increased ascertainment, although dissemination of a particular strain or clone may have been a factor.

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