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Volume 31, Number 7—July 2025

Dispatch

Human Infections by Novel Zoonotic Species Corynebacterium silvaticum, Germany

Anja Berger1Comments to Author , Alexandra Dangel1, Vyacheslav G. Melnikov2, Katja Bengs, Thomas Rupp, Hanns-Joerg Mappes, Christian Schneider, and Andreas Sing
Author affiliation: Bavarian Health and Food Safety Authority, Oberschleißheim, Germany (A. Berger, A. Dangel, K. Bengs, A. Sing); German National Consiliary Laboratory for Diphtheria, Oberschleißheim (A. Berger, V.C. Melnikov, A. Sing); European Union Public Health Reference Laboratory for Diphtheria and Pertussis, Oberschleißheim (A. Berger, A. Sing); World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Diphtheria, Oberschleißheim (A. Berger, A. Sing); Klinikum Aschaffenburg-Alzenau, Chirurgische Klinik, Aschaffenburg, Germany (T. Rupp, H.-J. Mappes); Klinikum Aschaffenburg-Alzenau, Zentrallabor, Germany (C. Schneider)

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Figure 1

Gene phylogenies of isolates from 2 cases of infection by the novel zoonotic species Corynebacterium silvaticum, Germany (isolates KL1281 and KL1848), compared with reference sequences from publicly available type strain sequences of C. diphtheriae complex species and a close relative outgroup (C. kutscheri). A) 16S; B) rpoB. Substitutions per aligned site are indicated above branches and local supporting values at intersections of branches. Scale bars indicate number of substitutions per site.

Figure 1. Gene phylogenies of isolates from 2 cases of infection by the novel zoonotic species Corynebacterium silvaticum, Germany (isolates KL1281 and KL1848), compared with reference sequences from publicly available type strain sequences of C. diphtheriae complex species and a close relative outgroup (C. kutscheri). A) 16S; B) rpoB. Substitutions per aligned site are indicated above branches and local supporting values at intersections of branches. Scale bars indicate number of substitutions per site.

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

2Current affiliation: University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.

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