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Pfeiffer Bacteriol.|ˈpfaɪfə(r)|
The name of Richard Pfeiffer (1858–1945), German bacteriologist, used in the possessive and attrib. to designate: a. The specific lysis of the cholera vibrio in the presence of antibody and complement as described by him (in Zeitschr. für Hygiene und Infektionskrankh. (1893) XIV. 59).
[1895E. Metchnikoff in Ann. de L'Inst. Pasteur IX. 438 La découverte de la destruction extracellulaire des microbes dans le liquid péritonéal, ou de ce qu'on peut appeler le ‘phenomène de Pfeiffer’, suggère toute une série de questions touchant le problème général de l'immunité.] 1897Muir & Ritchie Man. Bacteriol. xvii. 393 A striking change is observed microscopically in the vibrios when injected along with the protective serum into the peritoneal cavity of another guinea-pig—Pfeiffer's reaction. 1929Topley & Wilson Princ. Bacteriol. & Immunity II. lxi. 905 Pfeiffer's phenomenon is of great value in the identification of the cholera vibrio. 1970Science 3 Apr. 141/2 (heading) A new application of the Pfeiffer phenomenon.
b. A species of bacterium, Hæmophilus influenzæ, described by him (in Deutsch. med. Wochenschr. (1892) 14 Jan. 28) as the causal agent of influenza, but now known not to be.
1900H. J. Curtis Essent. Pract. Bacteriol. 287/1 (Index), Pfeiffer's influenza bacillus. 1910Hiss & Zinsser Text-bk. Bacteriol. xxxvii. 528 The bacillus of influenza (Pfeiffer bacillus) is an extremely small organism, about 0·5 micron long. 1936Lancet 12 Dec. 1383/1 The illness produced by introducing virulent cultures of Pfeiffer's bacillus into a healthy person is not genuine epidemic influenza. 1953J. Ramsbottom Mushrooms & Toadstools xxiii. 278 The insensitive Pfeiffer's bacillus..in the respiratory tract is usually associated with organisms highly sensitive to penicillin. |