This disease spreads mainly through droplet infections, but fomites, infected milk and food also transmit this disease. It is caused by Coryne bacterium diphtheria. The bacteria gets killed by heat and sunlight.
Diphtheria is an acute infectious disease caused by Corynebat- erbium diphtheria. It is a Gram positive rod shaped bacteria. It affects mostly children in the early school years.
Diphtheria is an acute infectious disease caused by bacteria named 'Croynebacterium diphtheria'. The incubation period for this disease in short varies from 2 to 5 days, but it may be longer.
It is an acute infectious disease caused by a specific microbe. It attacks the mucous membrane of the throat, larynx and the nasal cavities with a local membrane formation.