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

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

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

Researches      of Pasteur, Lister, Koch, Klebs, etc—Germ theory of      malaria.—Cholera.—The water question.—Effects of sewering.—

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 358, November 11, 1882 by Various

We may add, however, that Klebs considers his own method preferable.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883 by Various