Ethnopharmacological relevance Multiple plant species were used traditionally in southern
Africa to treat bacterial respiratory diseases. This review summarises this usage and …

Abstract In 2017, a total of 8,819 cases of diphtheria were reported worldwide, the most
since 2004. However, recent diphtheria epidemiology has not been well described. We …

Corynebacterium diphtheriae, the etiological agent of diphtheria, is a re-emerging pathogen,
responsible for several thousand deaths per year. In addition to diphtheria, systemic …

Antimicrobial therapy is important for case management of diphtheria, but knowledge on the
emergence of multidrug-resistance in Corynebacterium diphtheriae is scarce. We report on …

In 2015, a cluster of respiratory diphtheria cases was reported from KwaZulu-Natal Province
in South Africa. By using whole-genome analysis, we characterized 21 Corynebacterium …

Background Unrest in Myanmar in August 2017 resulted in the movement of over 700,000
Rohingya refugees to overcrowded camps in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. A large outbreak of …

The diphtheria outbreak in the Rohingya refugee population in Bangladesh, the outbreak in
Yemen due to war, and the more recent outbreaks in Venezuela and Haiti should raise …

Corynebacterium diphtheriae (C. diphtheriae) is a relatively rare pathogen in most Western
countries. While toxin producing strains can cause pharyngeal diphtheria with potentially …

Diphtheria is a respiratory disease caused by the bacterium Corynebacterium diphtheriae.
Although the development of a toxin-based vaccine in the 1930s has allowed a high level of …

Background Respiratory diphtheria is a toxin-mediated disease caused by Corynebacterium
diphtheriae. Diphtheria-like illness, clinically indistinguishable from diphtheria, is caused by …