Klebs–Löfflern.
/klɛbzˈlʊflə/ Used attributively to designate the bacterium ( Corynebacterium diphtheriæ) which is the cause of diphtheria in man and similar diseases in other animals.
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tubercle bacillus1882
Koch's bacillus1885
comma (bacillus)1886
spider-cell1888
Klebs–Löffler1895
Hofmann's bacillus1897
Koch–Weeks bacillus1898
Pfeiffer's bacillus1900
Shiga1900
Hansen('s) bacillus1903
streptobacilli1903
Johne's bacillus1907
wisp bacillus1915
klebsiella1928
Shigella1937
listerella1940
coliform1951
thiobacillus1951
1895 Lancet 21 Dec. 1577/1 The difference between it and the Klebs-Löffler bacillus [were] pointed out.
1897 Lancet 5 June 1533/1 We might now fitly speak of conjunctival inflammations as due to gonococci, to trachomacocci, to Weeks bacilli, to streptococci, to Klebs–Löffler bacilli, or to pneumococci.
1897 R. Muir & J. Ritchie Man. Bacteriol. xv. 329 The organism is..known as the Klebs–Löffler bacillus, or simply as Löffler's bacillus.
1935 Discovery 16 244/1 An enormous number of cases, mostly drain throats, are rushed off to hospital because the Klebs–Loeffler (diphtheria) bacillus has been found.
1972 M. J. Pelczar & R. D. Reid Microbiology (ed. 3) xxix. 567 Diphtheria is an acute febrile infection caused by Coryne~bacterium diphtheriae, also known as the Klebs–Löffler bacillus.
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