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Diphtheria (Corynebacterium Diphtheriae)
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Diphtheria (Corynebacterium diphtheriae)
Corynebacteria are Gram-positive, aerobic, nonmotile, rod-shaped bacteria
related to the Actinomycetes. They do not form spores or branch as do the
actinomycetes, but they have the characteristic of forming irregular shaped,
club-shaped or V-shaped arrangeme ....
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....pt Europe; in Spain
"El garatillo" (the strangler"), in Italy and Sicily, "the gullet disease".
In the 18th century, the disease reached the American colonies and reached
epidemic proportions in 1735. Often, whole families died of the disease in a few
weeks.
The bacterium that caused diphtheria was first described by Klebs in 1883, and
was cultivated by Loeffler in 1884, who applied Koch's postulates and properly
identified Corynebacterium diphtheriae as the agent of the disease.
In 1884, Loe.... |
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