C. diphtheriae biotype gravis strain NCTC13129 was isolated in 1997 from a 72-year-old female with clinical diphtheria who had returned to the UK from a Baltic cruise.

Published Genome Data

The C. diphtheriae NCTC 13129 genome is composed of a single circular chromosome of 2,488,635 bp, and was sequenced in collaboration with Dr. Androulla Efstratiou of the W.H.O. collaborating centre for diphtheria, Respiratory and Systemic Infection Laboratory, at the Health Protection Agency.

The fully annotated genome is available from the EMBL/GenBank databases with accession number BX248353.

Shotgun and assembly data from this project are available from our FTP site.

• The complete genome sequence and analysis of Corynebacterium diphtheriae NCTC13129.

  Cerdeño-Tárraga AM, Efstratiou A, Dover LG, Holden MT, Pallen M, Bentley SD, Besra GS, Churcher C, James KD, De Zoysa A, Chillingworth T, Cronin A, Dowd L, Feltwell T, Hamlin N, Holroyd S, Jagels K, Moule S, Quail MA, Rabbinowitsch E, Rutherford KM, Thomson NR, Unwin L, Whitehead S, Barrell BG and Parkhill J

  Nucleic acids research 2003;31;22;6516-23

  PUBMED: 14602910; PMC: 275568