NGS-based phylogeny of diphtheria-related pathogenicity factors in different Corynebacterium spp. implies species-specific virulence transmission

Transcriptome sequencing of the human pathogen Corynebacterium diphtheriae NCTC 13129 provides detailed insights into its transcriptional landscape and into DtxR-mediated transcriptional regulation

(2018) Manuel Wittchen et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Identification of a diphtheria toxin-like gene family beyond the Corynebacterium genus

(2018) Michael J. Mansfield et al.   FEBS LETTERS

Characterization of Corynebacterium diphtheriae , C. confusum and C. amycolatum isolated from sows with genitourinary infection

(2017) André P. Poor et al.   VETERINARY MICROBIOLOGY

Outbreak investigation for toxigenic Corynebacterium diphtheriae wound infections in refugees from Northeast Africa and Syria in Switzerland and Germany by whole genome sequencing

(2016) D.M. Meinel et al.   CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTION

Corynebacterium ulcerans, an emerging human pathogen

(2016) Elena Hacker et al.   Future Microbiology

PHASTER: a better, faster version of the PHAST phage search tool

(2016) David Arndt et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Classic Spotlight: Phage Bring Punch to the Party

(2015) Victor J. DiRita   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Prokka: rapid prokaryotic genome annotation

(2014) T. Seemann   BIOINFORMATICS

Trimmomatic: a flexible trimmer for Illumina sequence data

(2014) Anthony M. Bolger et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Next generation sequencing analysis of nine Corynebacterium ulcerans isolates reveals zoonotic transmission and a novel putative diphtheria toxin-encoding pathogenicity island

(2014) Dominik M Meinel et al.   Genome Medicine

Kraken: ultrafast metagenomic sequence classification using exact alignments

(2014) Derrick E Wood et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

QUAST: quality assessment tool for genome assemblies

(2013) Alexey Gurevich et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Pangenomic Study of Corynebacterium diphtheriae That Provides Insights into the Genomic Diversity of Pathogenic Isolates from Cases of Classical Diphtheria, Endocarditis, and Pneumonia

(2012) E. Trost et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

The Genus Corynebacterium and Other Medically Relevant Coryneform-Like Bacteria

(2012) K. Bernard   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

SPAdes: A New Genome Assembly Algorithm and Its Applications to Single-Cell Sequencing

(2012) Anton Bankevich et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY

FastTree 2 – Approximately Maximum-Likelihood Trees for Large Alignments

(2010) Morgan N. Price et al.   PLoS One

progressiveMauve: Multiple Genome Alignment with Gene Gain, Loss and Rearrangement

(2010) Aaron E. Darling et al.   PLoS One

Toxigenic Corynebacterium diphtheriae isolated from a wound in a horse

(2010) B. A. Leggett et al.   VETERINARY RECORD

Detection of Toxigenic Corynebacterium diphtheriae and Corynebacterium ulcerans Strains by a Novel Real-Time PCR

(2008) R. Schuhegger et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Genome sequence of the lytic bacteriophage P1201 from Corynebacterium glutamicum NCHU 87078: Evolutionary relationships to phages from Corynebacterineae

(2008) Chang-Lin Chen et al.   VIROLOGY