Eberth's bacillus

noun

Eberth's bacillus

noun

Etymology It was described in 1880 by Karl Joseph Eberth. The pathogen of typhoid fever, it has since been renamed Salmonella typhi.

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The bacillus Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica, the cause of typhoid.

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