Klebs

[klebz, kleyps]

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Edwin 1834–1913, German pathologist and bacteriologist.

Klebs

German bacteriologist who described the diphtheria bacillus in 1883 although he did not demonstrate it to be the cause of the disease. It wasn't until a year later that Friedrich Löffler made the causal link between the disease and the bacillus, which is now named after both of them. Klebs also demonstrated the presence of bacteria in infected wounds and showed that tuberculosis can be transmitted through infected milk.

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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.

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Within months, pretty much everyone had given up Klebs’s criterion for Luce’s criteria.

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With respect to variola, it may be said that while Cohn, Klebs, Weigert, and others have, without question, recognized microsph�ra, micrococci, and similar organisms in variolous pus, their causative relation to the pathological process has certainly not yet been demonstrated.

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Klein calls attention to the interesting examinations of the scarlatinous kidney made by Klebs, who attributed the diminished urination and the ur�mic poisoning in certain cases in which the kidneys do not exhibit any marked change to the naked eye, to what he designates glomerulo-nephritis.

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This discovery of a tuberculosis of the blood-vessels was confirmed by Klebs, who had found a tuberculosis of the azygos veins.

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