Details

Date1873
AuthorKlebs
ContributionDescribed a germ, Microsporon diphtheriticum, as causative agent of diphtheria.
ReferenceAnon.
NotesBut later rejected this germ (fungus turning into coccus) in favor of a bacillus. See 1883.
CategoryCausation
Pathogen ClassBacteria

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