Löffler

Löffler definition - medical

Löff·ler (lĕfˈlər, lœfˈ-), Friedrich August Johannes 1852-1915.

German bacteriologist who isolated (1884) the bacillus that is the causative agent of diphtheria, previously described by Edwin Klebs.

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