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Diphtheria in Children

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Diphtheria is an acute infectious disease caused by Corynebacterium diphtheriae. The toxin released by C. diphtheriae causes the disease. Nontoxigenic strains also may cause less severe disease. Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis, which primarily infects animals, rarely causes a diphtheria-like disease in humans.

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  1. Section of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, İzmir Dr. Behçet Uz Children’s Hospital, University of Health Sciences, İzmir, Turkey

    Kamile Arıkan

  2. Division of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Saint Paul’s Sinus Center, Vancouver General Hospital, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

    Marwan Alqunaee

  3. Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey

    Ateş Kara

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  1. Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Faculty of Medicine, Eskişehir Osmangazi University, Eskişehir, Turkey

    Cemal Cingi

  2. Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Kocaeli University, Kocaeli, Turkey

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  3. Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Faculty of Medicine, Kırıkkale University, Kırıkkale, Turkey

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Arıkan, K., Alqunaee, M., Kara, A. (2022). Diphtheria in Children. In: Cingi, C., Arısoy, E.S., Bayar Muluk, N. (eds) Pediatric ENT Infections. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80691-0_63

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