A localized infection of mucous membranes or skin caused by toxigenic strains of CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTHERIAE. It is characterized by the presence of a pseudomembrane at the site of infection. DIPHTHERIA TOXIN, produced by C. diphtheriae, can cause myocarditis, polyneuritis, and other systemic toxic effects.
    

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Immunity.

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A ghostly skeleton trying to strangle a sick child; representing diphtheria. Watercolour by R. Cooper.

Serum antidiphterique (Roux-Behring System) : prepared by Doctor Villejean.

The Wellcome Building, Euston Road, London: demonstration of an interactive display in the Wellcome Museum of Medical Science on the symptoms of follicular tonsillitis and diphtheria. Photograph.

Etude sur 249 cas de diphterie traites par le serum antidiphterique a l'hopital Trousseau (octobre - novembre 1894) / par G. Perregaux.

Diphtheria / by George Turner.

On tracheotomy in diphtheria / by George Buchanan.

Lister, Joseph, 1st Baron (1827-1912), and the Lister family

Diphtheritis or the membranous disease, commonly called membranous croup, as it appears in Roxbury and the vicinity of Boston / by B. E. Cotting ; reprinted from the Proceedings of the Boston Society for Medical Improvement.

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Etude sur 249 cas de diphterie traites par le serum antidiphterique a l'hopital Trousseau (octobre - novembre 1894) / par G. Perregaux.

Diphtheria / by George Turner.

On tracheotomy in diphtheria / by George Buchanan.

Lister, Joseph, 1st Baron (1827-1912), and the Lister family

Diphtheritis or the membranous disease, commonly called membranous croup, as it appears in Roxbury and the vicinity of Boston / by B. E. Cotting ; reprinted from the Proceedings of the Boston Society for Medical Improvement.