Animal tuberculosis (TB) is an emergent disease caused by Mycobacterium bovis, one of the
animal-adapted ecotypes of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTC). In this work …

Human-to-human-transmitted Corynebacterium diphtheriae was historically the main
pathogen causing diphtheria and has therefore been studied extensively in the past. More …

The pathogenic bacteria of Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis caused a chronic
contagious infectious disease of the caseous lymphadenitis or pseudotuberculosis. Globally …

Background Within the pathogenic bacterial species Corynebacterium genus, six species
that can produce diphtheria toxin (C. belfantii, C. diphtheriae, C. pseudotuberculosis, C …

Background Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis poses a major threat to the success of
tuberculosis control programs worldwide. Understanding how drug-resistant tuberculosis …

Non-diphtheriae Corynebacterium species have been increasingly recognized as the
causative agents of infections in humans. Differential identification of these bacteria in the …

Background: The bacteria that compose the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC)
cause tuberculosis (TB) in humans and in different animals, including livestock. Much …

Coxiella burnetii is responsible for Q fever, a worldwide zoonosis attributed to the inhalation
of aerosols contaminated by livestock birth products. Six draft genome sequences of …

Corynebacterium tuberculostearicum is a lipophilic corynebacterium validly characterized in
2004. We provide clinical information on 18 patients from whom this organism was isolated …

Diphtheria is an infectious disease potentially fatal that constitutes a threat to global health
security, with possible local and systemic manifestations that result mainly from the …