Carl Friedländer

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Carl Friedländer (1847-1887) was a German pathologist and microbiologist who helped discover the bacterial cause of pneumonia in 1882. He also first described thromboangiitis obliterans. He first identified the bacterium Klebsiella pneumoniae from the lungs of people who died from pneumonia. As a result, Klebsiella pneumoniae is often called Friedländer's bacterium.

[edit] Works

  • Friedländer, C. Über die Schizomyceten bei der acuten fibrösen Pneumonie. Virchow's Arch pathol. Anat. u. Physiol., 87 (2):319-324, Feb. 4, 1882.
  • Carl Friedländer: Arteriitis obliterans. Zentralblatt für die medizinischen Wissenschaften, Berlin, 1876, 14.

[edit] References

  • Kohler, W. & Mochmann, H. (1987): Carl Friedlander (1847-1887) and the discovery of the Pneumococcus--in memory of the centenary of his death. Zeitschrift für ärztliche Fortbildung 81(12):615-618.
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