Diphtheria

Introduction. 

Diphtheria is a respiratory infection by Corynebacterium diphtheriae. Although coryneform bacteria are common to the human respiratory tract, C. diphtyeriae is particularly pathogenic due to the prtesence of a lysogenic bacteriophage encoding the diphtheria toxin. 

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