BACTERIA AND THEIR ALTERNATE/ EPONYMOUS NAMES

Several Bacteria are known by their eponymous / alternate names. These are often asked in NEET-PG and medical PG exams as direct one-liners.

This table enlists all bacteria with their alternate eponymous table.

SR NO.	Scientific Name	Eponymous Name
1	Bordetella	Bordet gengou bacillus
2	clostridium tetani	Nicolaire’s bacillus
3	corynebacterium diphtheriae	Klebs Loeffler’s bacillus
4	Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis	Priesz Nocard bacillus
5	corynebacterium pseudodiphtheriticum	Hoffman’s bacillus
6	Haemophilus aegypticus	koch weeks bacillus
7	Haemophilus influenzae	Pfeiffer’s bacillus
8	Klebsiella pneumoniae	Friedlander’s bacillus
9	Klebsiella ozaenae	Abel’s bacillus
10	Klebsiella rhinoscleromatosis	Frisch bacillus
11	Mycobacterium tuberculosis	Koch’s bacillus
12	Mycobacterium intracellulare	Battey’s bacillus
13	Mycobacterium paratuberculosis	Johne’s bacillus
14	Mycoplasma	Eaton agent
15	Pseudomonas pseudomallei	Whitmore’s bacillus

Since this is pretty volatile information, do revise this table frequently.
Do let us know in the comments below if we missed any of these eponymous names.
PS – this list is a work-in-progress.