Getting To Know Diphtheria: Guidelines For Patients And Healthcare Providers

Diphtheria, first described by Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine, in the fifth century BC, is a highly communicable disease that primarily affects the skin or upper throat (nasopharynx) caused by a toxin-producing strain of a partic­ular bacteria called Corynebacteri­um diphtheria and rarely by other closely related bacteria. Diphtheria is a serious potentially life-threat­ening infection [...]

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