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Diphtheria.

open access: green, 1880
Robert W Westmoreland
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Diphtheria update

Nursing, 2023
Abstract: Travelers from parts of the world where diphtheria is endemic and vaccines are underutilized may carry diphtheria and become ill. This article provides an overview of diphtheria as well as management updates that are particularly critical amid a pandemic with healthcare disruptions and vaccine hesitancy.
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Diphtheria

2006
Diphtheria is a contagious upper respiratory illness that was a major cause of childhood mortality in the prevaccine era. In the early twentieth century, an effective toxoid vaccine was developed. Implementation of childhood vaccination virtually eliminated diphtheria from developed countries after the Second World War and implementation of the ...
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Diphtheria toxin (Corynebacterium diphtheriae)

1997
Abstract Diphtheria toxin is the primary virulence factor of toxigenic C. diphtheriae the etiologic agent of clinical diphtheria (Pappenheimer 1977). The structural gene for diphtheria toxin, tox, is carried by a closely related family of corynebacteriophages of which the β-phage has been the best studied (Buck et al.
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