A suspected case of diphtheria has claimed the life of a three-year-old girl in Basti Aawa, Ferozepur, marking the first such ...

As many as 28 children in Karachi have died from diphtheria this year due to the lack of Diphtheria Anti-Toxin (DAT), despite ...

One of the most common bacteria living in your dental plaque, a filamentous bacterium called Corynebacterium matruchotii, ...

KARACHI: Amid lack of diphtheria anti toxin , more than 100 kids in Karachi have passed away this year from diphtheria ...

A microorganism is proliferating in an unexpected way. Cell elongation at the ends of the filamentous bacteria Corynebacterium matruchotii. Credit: Chimileski et al (2024). Your mouth hosts more than ...

My specific research project is to create a chemically defined minimal media for nasal bacterial species, also known as nCDM. With a defined medium, I will investigate how Corynebacterium species ...

This illustration depicts a photomicrographic view of Corynebacterium diphtheriae bacteria using a ... [+] Gram-stain technique. Image courtesy CDC. (Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images).

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Oct. 3, 2024 — The extinction of hundreds of bird species caused by humans over the last 130,000 years has led to substantial reductions in avian functional diversity -- a measure of the range ...

Diphtheria is a bacterial infection caused by Corynebacterium diphtheriae, which affects the throat and nose. It is highly contagious and can lead to severe complications if left untreated.