W. J. Wilson and the Weil-Felix reaction.
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Eponymy is however not an absolute guarantee against what Sir Thomas Browne called the iniquity of oblivion. Times and names change. Brucella abortus has supplanted the bacillus abortus of Bang. I was taught that diphtheria was caused by the Klebs-Loeffler bacillus, but that pathogen is now Corynebacterium diphtheriae. Klebs has survived in Klebsiellapneumoniae, but at the expense of Friedlaender who once had sole rights in the organism.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- The Ulster Medical Journal
دوره 49 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1980