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Die Ätiologie der Psittakosis.

Klin. Wschr., 9, 654. 1930.

Discovery of the causal agent of psittacosis, Chlamydia psittaci. Simultaneously A. C. Coles (Lancet, 1930, 1, 1011-12) and R. D. Lillie (Publ. Hlth. Rep., Wash., 1930, 45, 773-78) made the same discovery, and the elementary bodies of psittacosis are known as the Levinthal–Coles–Lillie (LCL) bodies.

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