Usually means: Bacteria, causes infections, often antibiotic-resistant.
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  1. klebsiella: Merriam-Webster
  2. Klebsiella, klebsiella: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. klebsiella: Collins English Dictionary
  4. klebsiella: Vocabulary.com
  5. Klebsiella, klebsiella: Wordnik
  6. klebsiella: Wiktionary
  7. klebsiella: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. klebsiella: Dictionary.com
  9. Klebsiella: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. klebsiella: Rhymezone
  11. klebsiella: FreeDictionary.org
  12. klebsiella: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. klebsiella: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Klebsiella: Encyclopedia

Medicine (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. klebsiella: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Klebsiella: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Klebsiella: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  7. Klebsiella: Medical dictionary
  8. Klebsiella: Drug Medical Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (klebsiella)

▸ noun:  Any of the genus Klebsiella of rod-shaped bacteria, which cause many diseases in humans.

Similar:
bacillus, corynebacterium, carnobacterium, kinetoplastid, proteobacterium, spirochete, colibacillus, arcobacter, caulobacter, streptobacillus, more...

Opposite:
non-bacterial, healthy, sterile.

Phrases:
klebsiella pneumonia, klebsiella infections, genus klebsiella, Klebsiella pneumoniae, klebsiella rhinoscleromatis, more...

Adjectives:
resistant, aerobacter, anti, experimental, nosocomial, multiple, fecal, negative, producing, bacteremic, polyvalent

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Similar:
bacillus, corynebacterium, carnobacterium, kinetoplastid, proteobacterium, spirochete, colibacillus, arcobacter, caulobacter, streptobacillus, more...

Opposite:
non-bacterial, healthy, sterile.

Phrases:
klebsiella pneumonia, klebsiella infections, genus klebsiella, Klebsiella pneumoniae, klebsiella rhinoscleromatis, Klebsiella oxytoca, Klebsiella aerogenes, Klebsiella variicola, more...

Adjectives:
resistant, aerobacter, anti, experimental, nosocomial, multiple, fecal, negative, producing, bacteremic, polyvalent



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