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Klebs
[ klebz; German kleyps ]
noun
- ·ɾ [ed, -win, et, -veen], 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 maintained that a person’s gonads determined sex.
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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.
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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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Similar disorganization has been described by Ames, Klebs, and others.
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