corynebacterium diphtheriae

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   a species of bacterium that causes diphtheria

   SynonymsC. diphtheriaeKlebs-Loeffler bacillus

   Broadercorynebacterium

   Part ofgenus Corynebacterium

Questions about corynebacterium diphtheriae

What does corynebacterium diphtheriae mean?

corynebacterium diphtheriae means "a species of bacterium that causes diphtheria".

What is another word for corynebacterium diphtheriae?

Close synonyms include C. diphtheriae, Klebs-Loeffler bacillus. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is corynebacterium diphtheriae a common word?

corynebacterium diphtheriae is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.