Browsing Bergen Open Research Archive by Author "Cherkasova, Valentina"

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    • Molecular characterization of Corynebacterium diphtheriae isolates, Russia, 1957-1987 

      Skogen, Vegard; Cherkasova, Valentina; Maksimova, Nina; Marston, Chung K.; Sjursen, Haakon; Reeves, Michael W.; Olsvik, Ørjan; Popovic, Tanja (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2002)
      In the 1990s, the Newly Independent and Baltic States of the former Soviet Union experienced the largest diphtheria outbreak since the 1960s; it was caused by Corynebacterium diphtheriae strains of a unique clonal group. ...