Klebs-Löffler bacillus
Meaning
Noun
- Corynebacterium diphtheriae (species), the pathogenic bacterium that causes diphtheria.
Origin
- Discovered in 1884 by German bacteriologists Edwin Klebs (1834–1912) and Friedrich Löffler (1852–1915).
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