Background Corynebacterium silvaticum is a pathogenic, gram-positive bacterial species
that causes caseous lymphadenitis in wild boars, domestic pigs and roe deer in Western …

The bacterial strain PO100/5 was isolated from a skin abscess taken from a pig (Sus scrofa
domesticus) in the Alentejo region of southern Portugal. It was identified as …

Corynebacterium rouxii is one of the recently described species of the Corynebacterium
diphtheriae complex. As this species can potentially infect different hosts and harbor the tox …

The genus Corynebacterium includes species of biotechnological, medical and veterinary
importance. An atypical C. ulcerans strain, W25, was recently isolated from a case of …

Porcine Corynebacterium infection is still poorly studied, even though the pig has been
described as an asymptomatic carrier of Corynebacterium species, including the zoonotic …

Corynebacteria of the diphtheriae species complex (CdSC) can cause diphtheria in humans
and have been reported from companion animals. We aimed to describe animal infection …

Objectives Corynebacterium ulcerans can colonize a wide variety of animals and also
humans are infected, typically by zoonotic transmission. Symptoms range from skin ulcers or …

Background Diphtheria toxin (DT) is produced by toxigenic strains of the human pathogen
Corynebacterium diphtheriae as well as zoonotic C. ulcerans and C. pseudotuberculosis …

Background Corynebacterium diphtheriae complex was formed by the species C.
diphtheriae, Corynebacterium ulcerans and Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis in the …

Corynebacterium diphtheriae is a Gram‐positive, non‐spore forming, non‐motile,
pleomorphic rod belonging to the genus Corynebacterium and the actinomycete group of …