Corynebacterium diphtheriae and Related Toxigenic Species

1. Diphtheria and its Etiological Agents
Andreas Burkovski

2.
Corynebacterium diphtheriae, Corynebacterium ulcerans and Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis—General Aspects
Ana Luíza de Mattos Guaraldi, Raphael Hirata, Vasco Ariston de Carvalho Azevedo

3. Comparative Genomics and Pathogenicity Islands of Corynebacterium diphtheriae, Corynebacterium ulcerans, and Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis

Eva Trost, Andreas Tauch

4. Corynephages: Infections of the Infectors
Vartul Sangal, Paul A. Hoskisson

5. Toxin Structure, Delivery and Action
Başak Varol, Bilge Özerman Edis, Muhammet Bektaş

6. Iron Acquisition and Iron-Dependent Gene Expression in Corynebacterium diphtheriae

Michael P. Schmitt

7. Assembly and Function of Corynebacterium diphtheriae Pili
Melissa E. Reardon-Robinson, Hung Ton-That

8. Toxigenic Corynebacteria: Adhesion, Invasion and Host Response
Lisa Ott, Andreas Burkovski

9. Detection Methods for Laboratory Diagnosis of Diphtheria
Anja Berger, Michael Hogardt, Regina Konrad, Andreas Sing

10. Diphtheria Surveillance
Karen S. Wagner, Katherina Zakikhany, Joanne M. White, Gayatri Amirthalingam, Natasha S. Crowcroft, Androulla Efstratiou

11. History of Diphtheria Vaccine Development
Rino Rappuoli, Enrico Malito

12. Antimicrobial Susceptibility and Treatment
Aleksandra Anna Zasada

13. Sialidases of Corynebacteria and their Biotechnological Applications
Seonghun Kim, Doo-Byoung Oh, Ohsuk Kwon

14. Molecular Genetic Tools for Research in Corynebacterium diphtheriae

Diana M. Oram

15. Diphtheria Toxin Based Molecules as Therapeutic Approaches
Ingo Schubert

Keywords: Biomedicine, Medical Microbiology, Bacteriology, Epidemiology, Parasitology, Microbial Genetics and Genomics