Klebs

American  

[klebz, kleyps] / klɛbz, kleɪps /

noun

1. Edwin 1834–1913, German pathologist and bacteriologist.

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Klebs Scientific  

/ klāps /

1. 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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Example Sentences

Pasteur, Koch, Klebs, Roux and Yersin established the science of bacteriology, and between 1880 and 1900 the microbial origins of numerous diseases were demonstrated.

From Time Magazine Archive

Klebs had begun the task, but the world had to wait another hundred years for Peter Luce to come along and finish it.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

For most of the twentieth century, medicine had been using the same primitive diagnostic criterion of sex formulated by Klebs way back in 1876.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

Similar disorganization has been described by Ames, Klebs, and others.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

Klebs maintains that the two furrows are not connected, but in this he is certainly mistaken, provided we have the same species under consideration.

From Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 21:415-468, 1901 by Calkins, Gary N. (Gary Nathan)