Molecular Characterization of Corynebacterium Diphtheriae Isolates, Russia, 1957-1987

Overview

Journal Emerg Infect Dis

Specialty Infectious Diseases

Date 2002 May 9

PMID 11996689

Citations 3

Authors

Vegard Skogen

Valentina V Cherkasova

Nina Maksimova

Chung K Marston

Haakon Sjursen

Michael W Reeves

Orjan Olsvik

Tanja Popovic

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Abstract

In the 1990s, the Newly Independent and Baltic States of the former Soviet Union experienced the largest diphtheria outbreak since the 1960s; it was caused by Corynebacterium diphtheriae strains of a unique clonal group. To address its origin, we studied 47 clinical isolates from Russia and demonstrated that this clonal group was an integral part of the endemic reservoir that existed in Russia at least 5 years before the epidemic began.

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