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DIPHTHERIA Diphtheria, an airborne disease One way to identify this bacterium is by its storage granules Storage granules of a bacterium Another way to identify the diphtherial bacterium is by its pleomorphic shapes and its palisade (picket fence) arrangement of its cells Diphtherial bacteria Corynebacterium diphtheriae THE OFTEN FATAL OUTCOME FROM DIPHTHERIA IS SUFFICATION DUE TO THE FORMATION OF A PSEUDOMEMBRANE IN THE THROAT. Pseudomembrane of Diphtheria Pathogenesis of Exotoxins