Klebsiella

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Translingual

Klebsiella pneumoniae

Etymology

Named after German-Swiss microbiologist Edwin Klebs (1834–1913) +‎ -ella (taxonomic suffix).

Proper noun

Klebsiella f

A taxonomic genus within the family Enterobacteriaceae – certain gram-negative oxidase-negative, rod-shaped bacteria, some of which cause disease in humans.

Hypernyms

(genus): Prokaryota – superkingdom; Bacteria – kingdom; Negibacteria – subkingdom; Pseudomonadota – phylum; Gammaproteobacteria - class; Enterobacterales - order; Enterobacteriaceae - family

Hyponyms

(genus): Klebsiella pneumoniae - type species; Klebsiella aerogenes, Klebsiella grimontii, Klebsiella michiganensis, Klebsiella oxytoca, Klebsiella quasipneumoniae, Klebsiella quasivariicola, Klebsiella variicola - selected other species

References

Klebsiella on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Klebsiella on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Klebsiella on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Klebsiella in the Genome Taxonomy Database

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