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The method consists, first, of the cultivation, for some months, of the diphtheria bacillus (called the Klebs-Loeffler bacillus, in honor of its discoverers) in an artificial bouillon, for the development of a powerful toxine capable of giving the disease in a virulent form.
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This was in 1883, when the bacteriologist Klebs discovered the organism, followed a few months later (in 1884) by Löffler, who made valuable additions to our knowledge of it; so that it has ever since been known as the Klebs-Löffler bacillus.
Preventable Diseases Woods Hutchinson 1896
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Klebs had begun the task, but the world had to wait another hundred years for Peter Luce to come along and finish it.
Middlesex Eugenides, Jeffery 2002
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For most of the twentieth century, medicine had been using the same primitive diagnostic criterion of sex formulated by Klebs way back in 1876.
Middlesex Eugenides, Jeffery 2002
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We recall the so-called malaria bacillus of Klebs and Tommasi-Crudeli, found in the ooze of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1907 - Presentation Speech 1967
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In 1879, Klebs and Tommasi Crudeli had described under the name of Bacillus malariae, a bacillus found in the soil and water in malarial localities and a large number of Italian observers had published papers confirming the work of these authors.
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Under this head must be placed the bacillus malarise (Klebs and Tommassi-Crudeli), the bacillus typhi abdominalis (Klebs, Ebert), the bacillus typhi exanthematici
Scientific American Supplement, No. 303, October 22, 1881 Various
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(Klebs, observations not yet published), the bacillus of hog-cholera
Scientific American Supplement, No. 303, October 22, 1881 Various
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At the recent Medical Congress in London, Professor Klebs undertook to answer the question: "Are there specific organized causes of disease?"
Scientific American Supplement, No. 303, October 22, 1881 Various
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Meyer regards them as chlamydospores, and Klebs as
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
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