Koch–Weeks bacillus Med.
[f. the names of Robert Koch (see Koch) and J. E. Weeks (1853–1949), American ophthalmologist: see bacillus.]
The bacterium, Hæmophilus ægyptius, which is a common cause of infectious conjunctivitis.
| [1897 Arch. Ophthalmol. XXVI. 102 Peters and Fuchs claimed never to have been able to find the Koch–Weeks's bacillus.] 1898 R. T. Hewlett Man. Bacteriol. xx. 359 Conjunctivitis is usually of three kinds—viz. the acute, caused by the Koch–Weeks bacillus; the gonorrhœal; and the chronic. 1974 Passmore & Robson Compan. Med. Studies III. ii. xxxiii. 8/1 Conjunctivitis may occur in epidemic form in schools, offices, etc., the classical epidemic pink-eye, being caused by H. aegyptius (the Koch–Weeks bacillus). |