| Entry | T01698 | 
| Org code | cdb | 
| Name | Corynebacterium diphtheriae BH8 | 
| Annotation | yes | 
| Taxonomy | TAX: 698973 | 
| Lineage | Bacteria; Bacillati; Actinomycetota; Actinomycetes; Mycobacteriales; Corynebacteriaceae; Corynebacterium; Corynebacterium diphtheriae | 
| Brite | KEGG organisms [BR:br08601] KEGG organisms in the NCBI taxonomy [BR:br08610]
 KEGG organisms in taxonomic ranks [BR:br08611]
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| Data source | GenBank (Assembly: GCA_000241935.1 Complete Genome) BioProject: 42423
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| Keywords | Human pathogen | 
| Comment | Antibiotic-resistant strain. Isolated from an inpatient in Rio de Janeiro.
 
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| Chromosome | Circular | 
| Sequence | GB: CP003209 | 
| Length | 2485519 | 
| Statistics | Number of nucleotides:       2485519 Number of protein genes:        2361
 Number of RNA genes:              68
 
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| 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
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