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    diphtheria, which was called Klebs–Loeffler bacterium (now Corynebacterium diphtheriae). He was the father of physician Arnold Klebs. Klebs was born in Königsberg...
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    diphtheria. It is also known as the Klebs–Löffler bacillus because it was discovered in 1884 by German bacteriologists Edwin Klebs (1834–1912) and Friedrich Löffler...
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  • Klebs is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include: Arnold Klebs (1870–1943), Swiss microbiologist and physician; son of Edwin Klebs Edwin...
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    polysaccharide-based capsule. Klebsiella is named after German-Swiss microbiologist Edwin Klebs (1834–1913). Carl Friedlander described Klebsiella bacillus which is...
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    1883, Edwin Klebs identified the bacterium causing diphtheria, and named it Klebs–Loeffler bacterium. The club shape of this bacterium helped Edwin to differentiate...
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    3-hydroxybutyrate. The genus Klebsiella was named after the German microbiologist Edwin Klebs (1834–1913).[citation needed] It is also known as Friedlander's bacillum...
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  • "Pseudohermaphroditimus" (pseudohermaphroditism) was coined in German by Edwin Klebs in 1876. Klebs had included the term as a synonym for the earlier coined, "spurious...
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    disease. In April 1880, three months prior to Eberth's publication, Edwin Klebs described short and filamentous bacilli in the Peyer's patches in typhoid...
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    In the same year, Canada balsam appeared on the scene, and in 1869 Edwin Klebs (1834-1913) reported that he had for some years embedded his specimens...
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    determined the "perceived" sex of an individual. German-Swiss pathologist Edwin Klebs is sometimes noted for using the word "pseudohermaphroditism" in his...
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