Klebs

[klebz, kleyps]

noun

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

Klebs

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.

Example Sentences

Within months, pretty much everyone had given up Klebs’s criterion for Luce’s criteria.

From Literature

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

From Literature

With respect to variola, it may be said that while Cohn, Klebs, Weigert, and others have, without question, recognized microsph�ra, micrococci, and similar organisms in variolous pus, their causative relation to the pathological process has certainly not yet been demonstrated.

From Project Gutenberg

Klebs inoculated the micrococci in pigeons and dogs, and found them in the blood of the animals after death.

From Project Gutenberg

Similar disorganization has been described by Ames, Klebs, and others.

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