Diphtherie

Diphtherie
	Diphtherie can cause a swollen neck, whiles referred tae as a bull neck.
Specialty	Infectious disease
Symptoms	Sore thrait, fiver, baurky coch
Uisual onset	2–5 days post-exposur
Causes	Corynebacterium diphtheriae (spreid bi direct contact an throu the air)
Diagnostic method	Thrait appearance, cultur
Prevention	Diphtherie vaccine
Treatment	Antibiotics, tracheostomy
Frequency	4,500 (reportit 2015)
Daiths	2,100 (2015)
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Diphtherie is an infection caused bi the bacterium Corynebacterium diphtheriae.^[1]

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↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 ^1.4 ^1.5 Atkinson, William (May 2012). Diphtheria Epidemiology and Prevention of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases (12 ed.). Public Health Foundation. pp. 215–230. ISBN 9780983263135. Archived frae the oreeginal on 15 September 2016.
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 "Diphtheria vaccine" (PDF). Wkly Epidemiol Rec. 81 (3): 24–32. 20 January 2006. PMID 16671240. Archived (PDF) frae the oreeginal on 6 June 2015.
↑ "Diphtheria". who.int. 3 September 2014. Archived frae the oreeginal on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 27 March 2015.
↑ GBD 2015 Mortality and Causes of Death, Collaborators. (8 October 2016). "Global, regional, and national life expectancy, all-cause mortality, and cause-specific mortality for 249 causes of death, 1980-2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015". Lancet. 388 (10053): 1459–1544. doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(16)31012-1. PMC 5388903 . PMID 27733281.