Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun klebs-loeffler_bacillus

1 sense of klebs-loeffler bacillus

Sense 1
Corynebacterium diphtheriae, C. diphtheriae, Klebs-Loeffler bacillus -- (a species of bacterium that causes diphtheria)
       => corynebacterium -- (any species of the genus Corynebacterium)