Historical Perspectives pt 5 Flashcards
Who is credited for Germ Theory of Disease?
Also developed technical methods of staining and culturing bacteria
Robert Koch,
Done by cultivating the bacteria that causes Anthrax
Koch’s postulates (4)
Found in all cases of disease
Can bemaintained in pure culture
Produces original infection many generations
Retrievable from the animal and cultured again
Hesse couple
Angelina Fanny Hesse
Walter HEsse
Developed the staining method that demonstrates between gram positive and negative
Hans Christian Gram
The industries Louis Pasteur was involved in after being the one who formulated the Germ Theory of Disease
Wine industry - yeast, bacteria, pasteurization
Silk industry - microorganisms in silk worms
Developed the culture media to study yeast and mold
Raymond Sabouraud
Tobacco mosaic virus could pass through filters that bacteria can’t
Dimitri Ivanovski
Proposed a theory of immunity
Father of modern chemotherapy
Helped identify ___
Paul Ehrlich
tubercle bacili
The full name of Penicillin
Penicillium notatum
Penicillin was first tested against:
Staphyloccus aureus
Linked Diphtheria to a toxin, treated diphtheria with antitoxin
Emile Roux, Alexandre Yersin ,, Emil von Behring
Treated Tetanus bacillus
Shibasaburo Kitasato
Reformer of hospital sanitation methods
Florence Nightingale (Lady with the lamp)
Found biofilm communities and how different soil environments favor certain organisms through his Column
Sergei Winogradsky
Developed the antibiotics Tetracycline and Streptomycin
Selman Waksman