A 7-year-old unvaccinated child from rural India presents with a pseudomembrane in the pharynx, fever, and cervical lymphadenopathy. Culture on Loeffler's medium yields gram-positive bacilli that ferment glucose but not maltose. Which is the most common site of diphtheria in this patient?

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