Eberth

[ ā′bərt ]

Karl Joseph 1835-1926

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German bacteriologist and pathologist who was among the first to identify the bacillus of typhoid fever (1880).

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The comma bacillus of Koch, and the typhoid fever germ of Eberth, are especially destroyed in normal gastric juice.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 787, January 31, 1891|Various
Eberth and Wadsworth86 have shown that the regeneration of corneal epithelium takes place from pre-existing epithelium.
A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I|Various
The malevolent Deus in the sewage machina is, of course, a germ—the Bacillus typhosus of Eberth.
Preventable Diseases|Woods Hutchinson
In 1880, Koch and Eberth isolated the typhoid bacillus, and Sternberg the pneumonia bacillus.
Invention|Bradley A. Fiske

The germ which causes this fever has generally been supposed to be the bacillus of Eberth.
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