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Volume 23, Number 8—August 2017
Research

Molecular Characterization of Corynebacterium diphtheriae Outbreak Isolates, South Africa, March–June 2015

Mignon du PlessisComments to Author , Nicole Wolter, Mushal Allam, Linda de Gouveia, Fahima Moosa, Genevie Ntshoe, Lucille Blumberg, Cheryl Cohen, Marshagne Smith, Portia Mutevedzi, Juno Thomas, Valentino Horne, Prashini Moodley, Moherndran Archary, Yesholata Mahabeer, Saajida Mahomed, Warren Kuhn, Koleka Mlisana, Kerrigan McCarthy, and Anne von Gottberg
Author affiliations: National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa (M. du Plessis, N. Wolter, M. Allam, L. de Gouveia, F. Moosa, G. Ntshoe, L. Blumberg, C. Cohen, M. Smith, P. Mutevedzi, J. Thomas, K. McCarthy, A. von Gottberg); University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (M. du Plessis, N. Wolter, C. Cohen, A. von Gottberg); National Health Laboratory Service, Cape Town, South Africa (V. Horne); University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa (P. Moodley, M. Archary, Y. Mahabeer, S. Mahomed, W. Kuhn, K. Mlisana); National Health Laboratory Service, Durban (Y. Mahabeer, K. Mlisana); National Department of Health, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa (W. Kuhn)

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Figure 1

Global population snapshot of Corynebacterium diphtheriae sequence types. eBURST (http://eburst.mlst.net/) was used to display the C. diphtheriae isolates (n = 616) available in the PubMLST database (http://pubmlst.org/cdiphtheriae/) at the time of analysis (accessed June 13, 2017). Isolates from South Africa (n = 25) are green. The size of each circle is proportional to the number of isolates, and related sequence types are connected by lines. Blue and yellow circles indicate founding and subfo

Figure 1. Global population snapshot of Corynebacterium diphtheriae sequence types. eBURST (http://eburst.mlst.net/) was used to display the C. diphtheriae isolates (n = 616) available in the PubMLST database (http://pubmlst.org/cdiphtheriae/) at the time of analysis (accessed June 13, 2017). Isolates from South Africa (n = 25) are green. The size of each circle is proportional to the number of isolates, and related sequence types are connected by lines. Blue and yellow circles indicate founding and subfounding genotypes, respectively.

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