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    Corynebacterium diphtheriae is a gram-positive bacterium that causes the disease diphtheria. It primarily infects the upper respiratory tract, with an incubation period of 2-5 days. The most common site of infection is the pharynx and tonsils. The severity of the disease depends on how much toxin enters the bloodstream, which can cause damage to organs like the heart, nerves, and kidneys. Without treatment, diphtheria can lead to heart failure, paralysis, suffocation, or death in around 5-10% of cases.

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    BACTERIA (MICROPARA)

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    Corynebacterium diphtheriae is a gram-positive bacterium that causes the disease diphtheria. It primarily infects the upper respiratory tract, with an incubation period of 2-5 days. The most common site of infection is the pharynx and tonsils. The severity of the disease depends on how much toxin enters the bloodstream, which can cause damage to organs like the heart, nerves, and kidneys. Without treatment, diphtheria can lead to heart failure, paralysis, suffocation, or death in around 5-10% of cases.

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    Corynebacterium diphtheriae is a gram-positive bacterium that causes the disease diphtheria. It primarily infects the upper respiratory tract, with an incubation period of 2-5 days. The most common site of infection is the pharynx and tonsils. The severity of the disease depends on how much toxin enters the bloodstream, which can cause damage to organs like the heart, nerves, and kidneys. Without treatment, diphtheria can lead to heart failure, paralysis, suffocation, or death in around 5-10% of cases.

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    NAME: Delos Reyes, Aerica L. III.

    LIFE CYCLE
    SECTION: CON-1C
    C. diphtheriae causes the disease diphtheria which
    primarily affects the upper respiratory tract. The
    Family Corynebacteriaceae: Corynebacterium bacteria can invade any of the mucous membranes
    (diphtheria) and have a 2–5-day incubation period. Different
    sites of infection cause different clinical forms of
    diphtheria with varying severity. The most
    I. DESCRPTION commons site of infection is the pharynx and
    tonsils, but the bacteria can also invade the nasal
    Corynebacterium diphtheriae is a gram-positive, tissues, larynx, and skin. Anterior nasal diphtheria is
    rod-shaped bacterium that is classified in the usually quite like the common cold in symptoms
    phylum Actinobacteria and the family and severity because the location of the infection
    Corynebacteriaceae. It is a pathogen, meaning that does not allow for large-scale systemic absorption
    it can cause disease in humans and animals. of the diphtheria toxin.
    Corynebacterium diphtheriae is the pathogenic
    bacterium that causes diphtheria. It is also known as The ultimate outcome of the disease depends on
    the Klebs–Löffler bacillus, because it was how much toxin is absorbed into the bloodstream.
    discovered in 1884 by German bacteriologists The toxin has degenerative effects on the heart,
    Edwin Klebs (1834–1912) and Friedrich nerves, spleen, muscles, liver, and kidneys. In the
    Löffler (1852–1915). Corynebacterium diphtheriae most severe cases, an infected person will develop
    is further classified into different biotypes based on myocarditis or neuritis, which leads to heart failure
    its ability to produce certain toxins and enzymes. and local paralysis most commonly of the soft
    The most common biotypes of C. diphtheriae are palate, respectively. The fatality rate is
    gravis, intermedius, and mitis. approximately 5-10% of cases, but is higher for
    young children or the very old.

    II. PATHOGENIC

    Corynebacterium diphtheriae is the bacterium that REFERENCES:


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