| Entry | T01701 |
| Org code | cdw |
| Name | Corynebacterium diphtheriae PW8 |
| Annotation | yes |
| Taxonomy | TAX:698964 |
| Lineage | Bacteria; Bacillati; Actinomycetota; Actinomycetes; Mycobacteriales; Corynebacteriaceae; Corynebacterium; Corynebacterium diphtheriae |
| Org group | Bacteria; Actinomycetota; Mycobacteriales |
| Brite | KEGG organisms [BR:br08601]
KEGG organisms in the NCBI taxonomy [BR:br08610]
KEGG organisms in taxonomic ranks [BR:br08611] |
| Data source | GenBank (Assembly: GCA_000255275.1 Complete Genome) |
| Keywords | Human pathogen, Vaccine strain |
| Disease | H00343 Diphtheria |
| Comment | Widely used toxoid vaccine producer.
Isolated from a diphtheria patient in New York, 1896. |
| Chromosome | Circular (GB: CP003216) |
| Statistics | Number of protein genes: 2322
Number of RNA genes: 68 |
| Created | 2012 |
| Reference | PMID: 22505676 |
| Authors | Trost E, Blom J, Soares Sde C, Huang IH, Al-Dilaimi A, Schroder J, Jaenicke S, Dorella FA, Rocha FS, Miyoshi A, et al. |
| Title | Pangenomic study of Corynebacterium diphtheriae that provides insights into the genomic diversity of pathogenic isolates from cases of classical diphtheria, endocarditis, and pneumonia. |
| Journal | J Bacteriol 194:3199-215 (2012)
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00183-12 |
