Scientific Name: corynebacterium diphtheriae
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http://www.historyofvaccines.org/content/timelines/diphtheria>
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Under a microscope it looks like a rod-shaped . One out of 10 people who have diphtheria, at least one of them die.
<http://www.nfid.org/publications/factsheets/diphtadult.pdf> Diphtheria was first dicoved by a french phycial in Pierre-Fidele Bretonneau., 1826. <http://www.nfid.org/publications/factsheets/diphtadult.pdf> |