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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 arrangements in normal growth. They undergo snapping
movements just after cell division which brings them into characteristic
arrangements re ....
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.... the first clinical description of diphtheria in the 4th
century B.C. There are also references to the disease in ancient Syria and Egypt.
In the 17th century, murderous epidemics of diphtheria swept 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.
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