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Klebs-Loeffler bacillus

NOUN
  1. a species of bacterium that causes diphtheria

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  • For instance, the germ that causes typhoid fever is called the _bacillus typhosus_; that which causes tuberculosis is called the bacillus tuberculosis; while the germ of diphtheria known as the _Klebs-Loeffler bacillus_, after the two men who discovered it. A Handbook of Health
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