Klebs

American  

[klebz, kleyps] / klɛbz, kleɪps /

noun

1. Edwin 1834–1913, German pathologist and bacteriologist.

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Klebs Scientific  

/ klāps /

1. German bacteriologist who described the diphtheria bacillus in 1883 although he did not demonstrate it to be the cause of the disease. It wasn't until a year later that Friedrich Löffler made the causal link between the disease and the bacillus, which is now named after both of them. Klebs also demonstrated the presence of bacteria in infected wounds and showed that tuberculosis can be transmitted through infected milk.

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Example Sentences

Pasteur, Koch, Klebs, Roux and Yersin established the science of bacteriology, and between 1880 and 1900 the microbial origins of numerous diseases were demonstrated.

From Time Magazine Archive

Klebs had begun the task, but the world had to wait another hundred years for Peter Luce to come along and finish it.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

For most of the twentieth century, medicine had been using the same primitive diagnostic criterion of sex formulated by Klebs way back in 1876.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

Physiology.—The physiology of the fungi comes under the head of that of plants generally, and the works of Pfeffer, Sachs, Vines, Darwin and Klebs may be consulted for details.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various

At the recent Medical Congress in London, Professor Klebs undertook to answer the question: "Are there specific organized causes of disease?"

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 303, October 22, 1881 by Various