Diphtheria laboratory findings

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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]

Overview

Laboratory criteria

• Isolation of Corynebacterium diphtheriae from a clinical specimen, or
• Histopathologic diagnosis of diphtheria.