Publications

Chapters and manuals

• Pink Book’s Chapter on Diphtheria
  Epidemiology & Prevention of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases textbook
• Travelers’ Health: Yellow Book—Chapter on Diphtheria
  CDC’s Health Information for International Travel 2014
• Surveillance Manual’s Chapter on Diphtheria
  Manual from the Surveillance of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases textbook

Articles

Vaccine licensures and recommendations

• Oliver S, Moore KL. Licensure of a diphtheria and tetanus toxoids and acellular pertussis, inactivated poliovirus, Haemophilus influenzae type b conjugate and hepatitis B vaccine, and guidance for use in infants. Morb Mortal Wkly Rep MMWR. 2020;69(5):136–39.
• Havers FP, Moro P, Hunter P, Hariri S, Bernstein H. Use of Tetanus Toxoid, Reduced Diphtheria Toxoid, and Acellular Pertussis (Tdap) Vaccines — Updated Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2020;69(3);77–83.
• Liang JL, Tiwari T, Moro P, et al. Prevention of Pertussis, Tetanus, and Diphtheria with Vaccines in the United States: Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2018;67(2):1–44.

Surveillance, epidemiology, and outbreaks

• Bampoe VD, Boswell HC, Yu YC, Acosta AM. A review of adverse events from the use of diphtheria antitoxin (DAT) in the United States, 2004–2009. Clin Infect Dis. Published online ahead of print, 2021 Oct 10. Doi: 10.1093/cid/ciab899
• Otshudiema JO, Acosta AM, Cassiday PK, et al. Respiratory illness caused by Corynebacterium diphtheriae and C. ulcerans, and use of diphtheria antitoxin in the United States, 1996–2018. Clin Infect Dis. 2021;73(9):e2799–806.
• Weil LM, Williams MM, Shirin T, et al. Investigation of a large diphtheria outbreak and cocirculation of Corynebacterium pseudodiphtheriticum among forcibly displaced Myanmar Nationals, 2017-2019. J Infect Dis. 2021;224(2):318–25.
• Griffith J, Bozio CH, Poel AJ, et al. Imported toxin-producing cutaneous diphtheria — Minnesota, Washington, and New Mexico, 2015–2018. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2019;68:281–284.
• Weil LM, Butler C, Howell KR, et al. Notes from the Field: Conjunctivitis caused by toxigenic Corynebacterium ulcerans — Missouri, 2018. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2019;68:615–616.
• CDC. Notes from the field: Respiratory diphtheria-like illness caused by toxigenic Corynebacterium ulcerans—Idaho, 2010. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2011;60 (03):77.
• CDC. Fatal respiratory diphtheria in a U.S. traveler to Haiti—Pennsylvania, 2003. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2004;52(53):1285—6.
• CDC. Toxigenic Corynebacterium diphtheriae—Northern Plains Indians. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 1997;46(22):506—10.
• Dittmann S. Epidemic diphtheria in the Newly Independent States of the former USSR—Situation and lessons learned. Int Assoc Biol Standard. 1997;25:179—86.

Laboratory

• Williams MM, Waller JL, Aneke JS, et al. Detection and characterization of diphtheria toxin gene-bearing Corynebacterium species through a new real-time PCR assay. J Clin Microbiol. 2020;58(10):e00639-20.
• Xiaoli L, Benoliel E, Peng Y, et al. Genomic epidemiology of nontoxigenic Corynebacterium diphtheriae from King County, Washington State between July 2018 and April 2019. Microbial Genomics. 2020;6(12):mgen000467.
• Marini RP, Cassiday PK, Venezia J, et al. Corynebacterium ulcerans in ferrets. Emerg Infect Dis. 2014;20:159—61.
• Venezia K, Cassiday PK, Marini RP, et al. Characterization of Corynebacterium species in macaques. J Med Microbiol. 2012;61:1401—8.
• Bolt F, Cassiday P, Tondella ML, et al. Multilocus sequence typing identifies evidence for recombination and two distinct lineages of Corynebacterium diphtheriae. J Clin Microbiol. 2010;48:4177—85.
• Hall AJ, Cassiday PK, Bernard KA, et al. Isolation of novel Corynebacterium diphtheriae from domestic cats. Emerg Infect Dis. 2010;16:688—91.
• Cassiday PK, Pawloski LC, Tiwari T, et al. Analysis of toxigenic Corynebacterium ulcerans strains revealing potential for false-negative real-time PCR results. J Clin Microbiol. 2009; 46:331—3.
• Mothershed EA, Cassiday PK, Pierson K, et al. Development of a real-time fluorescent PCR assay for rapid detection of the diphtheria toxin gene. J Clin Microbiol. 2002;40:4713—19.
• Popovic T, Kim C, Reiss JA, et al. Use of molecular subtyping to document long-term persistence of Corynebacterium diphtheriae in South Dakota. J Clin Microbiol. 1999;37:1092—9.