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Diphtheria and its prevention

The article analyzes statistical data on the incidence of diphtheria in the Russia at the end of the XX and the beginning of XXI century, provides absolute and relative intensive incidence rates in the country level, examines the patterns of the …

Diphtheria: the Beginning of a large Way

In 2011, it was 110 years since the first Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine was awarded to the E. Bering «for his work on serum therapy, mainly for its use in the treatment of diphtheria, which opened up new directions in medical science and …

Rapid Phenotypic Methods for the Detection of Diphtheria Toxin Amongst Clinical Isolates of Corynebacteria

Two rapid, phenotypic methods were developed for the detection of diphtheria toxin amongst clinical isolates of corynebacteria, an enzyme immunoassay (EIA) and an immunochromatographic strip (ICS) test. Both assays use equine polyclonal antitoxin as …