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Source of Infection:
Discharges and secretions from mucus surface
of nose and nasopharynx and from skin and other skin
lesions.
Acute febrile infection of the tonsil, throat, nose,
larynx or a wound marked by a patch or patches of
grayish membrane from which the diphtheria bacillus
is readily cultured. Nasal diphtheria is commonly
marked by one sided nasal discharge and excoriated
nostrils. Non-respiratory or cutaneous diphtheria
appears as localized punched out ulcers.
Mode of Transmission:
Incubation Period: