We are happy to share the news that a cgMLST-based Life Identification Number (LIN) system for hierarchical taxonomy of Corynebacterium diphtheriae and related species has been published. This taxonomy is based on the analysis of over 1,600 genomes, and improves…

Pertussis, like many other diseases, was very low during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, after the pandemic cases started to increase and then exploded. A new report on “global incidence of pertussis after the COVID-19 pandemic” has been published in the…

Our German colleagues (Anja Berger and Andreas Sing) have just published and important paper, where they show how respiratory diphtheria is transmitted to vulnerable individuals, and unfortunately causing death. Their results also show that a person with diphtheria of the…