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Heinz Karl Ernst Klinger

Born  1907
Died  

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German pathologist, born 1907.

Biography of Heinz Karl Ernst Klinger

Heinz Karl Ernst Klinger was a student at the University of Berlin in 1931 when he reported two patients who died having prolonged sepsis with inflammation of blood.

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