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Definition of Klebs-Loeffler bacillus
1. Noun. A species of bacterium that causes diphtheria.
Generic synonyms: Corynebacterium
Group relationships: Genus Corynebacterium
Medical Definition of Klebs-Loeffler bacillus
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Klebs-Loeffler Bacillus
Literary usage of Klebs-Loeffler bacillus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Principles and Practice of Medicine: Designed for the Use of by William Osler, Thomas McCrae (1916)
"In a large proportion of the cases of angina in scarlet fever the Klebs-Loeffler
bacillus is not present. Booker has reported 11 cases complicating scarlet ..."
2. Pediatrics: The Hygienic and Medical Treatment of Children by Thomas Morgan Rotch (1896)
"All patients with diphtheria should bo isolated until the Klebs-Loeffler bacillus
has disappeared from the nose and throat. The time when this occurs varies ..."
3. Annual of the Universal Medical Sciences edited by [Anonymus AC02809657] (1893)
"Baginsky has also, like other observers, noticed that, while paralysis is common
after the diphtheria caused by the Klebs-Loeffler bacillus, ..."
4. A Treatise on the Diseases of Infancy and Childhood by Job Lewis Smith (1890)
"known as the Klebs-Loeffler bacillus became a prominent object <>\' -tudy« perhaps
the causal ... The Klebs-Loeffler bacillus was found by Loeffler in the ..."