DIPHTHERIA

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DIPHTHERIA
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Diphtheria, an airborne disease

• One way to identify this bacterium is by its
  storage granules

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Storage granules of a bacterium
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• Another way to identify the diphtherial bacterium
  is by its pleomorphic shapes and its palisade
  (picket fence) arrangement of its cells

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Diphtherial bacteria
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Corynebacterium diphtheriae
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• THE OFTEN FATAL OUTCOME FROM DIPHTHERIA IS
  SUFFICATION DUE TO THE FORMATION OF A
  PSEUDOMEMBRANE IN THE THROAT.

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Pseudomembrane of Diphtheria
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Pathogenesis of Exotoxins