Western Europe experienced the largest surge in reported diphtheria infections in 70 years. Clinical and genomic data from ...

The largest diphtheria outbreak to strike Western Europe in 70 years has been affecting vulnerable people such as migrants ...

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has disclosed that the ongoing diphtheria outbreak in parts of Imo State has claimed ten lives.The international agency also revealed that 4,017 persons ...

Diphtheria is a serious and contagious infection caused when the bacteria Corynebacterium diphtheriae release toxins. Symptoms often appear in the skin or respiratory system. If it enters the ...

Research is providing insight into how harmless Corynebacterium species, bacterial members of the nasal and skin microbiome, help protect humans from disease. "Our research helps set the stage for ...

NIH researchers reporting in the journal Immunity on July 11 found that Corynebacterium mastitidis dwells on the eyes of laboratory mice, and that mice with Corynebacterium could fend off invading ...

Figure 1: Overview of CRISPR-Cpf1-assisted genome editing in C. glutamicum. Figure 3: Double and all-in-one plasmid-based deletion and insertion in the crtYf locus of C. glutamicum. Figure 5 ...

It usually appears in the folds of the skin. It’s more commonly seen in warm or humid climates and is usually caused by the bacteria Corynebacterium minutissimum. Erythrasma tends to be a ...

The patients also had large increases in the amount of Corynebacterium tuberculostearicum in their sinuses, which are located in the forehead, cheeks and eyes. The team also identified a common ...

A colony of Corynebacterium matruchotii, one of the most common bacteria in dental plaque. Credit: Scott Chimileski, Marine Biological Laboratory. See Chimileski et al, PNAS, 2024.