A 6-year-old unvaccinated child from rural India presents with a thick, grey-white pseudomembrane over the tonsils and pharynx, fever, and cervical lymphadenopathy. Throat culture on selective media grows gram-positive bacilli. Regarding the laboratory diagnosis and management of diphtheria, all of the following are correct EXCEPT:

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