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1
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diseases are caused by transferable spore like particles that can transmit infection of disease such as syphillis

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Girolamo Fracastoro

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2
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father of microbiology

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Anton va Leeuwekhoek

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3
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1st described microbes

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Anton van Leeuwekhoek

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4
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invented the 1st microscope

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Anton van Leeuwekhoek

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5
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introduced hand washing to prevent puerperal (childbirth) fever in the 1900’s

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Ignazio Semmelweis

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6
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first used antiseptic in surgery using carbolic acid

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Joseph Lister

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7
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the 1st to disprove spontaneous generation?

then the person that put the final nail in the coffin of spontaneous generation?

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Lazzaro Spallanzani

then Louis Pasteur

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8
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purposed the germ theory that states that many diseases are caused by microorganims

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Louis Pasteur

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9
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inventor of the pasteuriszation process

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Louis Pasteur

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10
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discovered the bacillus that caused anthrax

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Robert Koch

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11
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discovered TB vaccine

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Robert Koch

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12
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known as ___ postulates

what are these postulates

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Robert Koch

  1. agent must be found in all patients with disease
  2. must be able to prepare and culture of the agent
  3. injected agent must cause the same disease in new patients
  4. must recover same organism from newly infected patient
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13
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stated bacteria are capable of transferring genetic information by the process of transformation resulting in a more virulent form of the bacteria

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Fedrick Griffith

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14
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stated the transferring substance in replication is DNA

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McCarty and Macleod

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15
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discovered the structure of DNA

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Watson and Crick

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16
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discovered that bacterial chromosomes are circular

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John Cairns

17
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promoted vaccination for smallpox

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Mary Wortley Montagu

18
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promoted cowpox vaccination to protect against smallpox

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Edward Jenner

19
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discovered penicillin

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Alexander Fleming

20
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discovered the skin test for diphtheria

called the __ test

21
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stated public health outbreak of cholera was linked to water pumps

22
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founded public health nursing

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Florence Nightingale

23
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discovered the existence of viruses while working with tobacco plants

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Dmitri Iwanowski
and
Beijerinck

24
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discovered yellow fever was transmitted by mosquitos

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Walter Reed

25
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developed vaccines against rabies and anthrax

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Louis Pasteur

26
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developed a 7 step process of staining bacteria

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Hans Christian Gram

  1. add crystal violet (blue stain)
  2. wash off with H20
  3. add iodine (fixer)
  4. wash off with H20
  5. add acetone alcohol (decolorizer - removes blue)
  6. counter stain with safranin (red stain)
  7. wash off with H20
27
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developed chemicals that kills microorganisms like syphillis

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Paul Ehrlich

28
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discovered sulfa drugs and salvarsan

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Paul Ehrlich

29
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made the 1st electron microscope which was used to prove existence of viruses

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Ernst Ruska

30
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developed vaccine for polio using LIVE polio organisms

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Albert Sabin

  • sabin your life from polio

salk made killed version

31
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coined the term prion for diseases that were caused by protein particles such as Mad Cow Disease (cows) and Cruetzfeld Jacobs Diseae (humans)

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Stanley Prusiner

32
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discovered a bacteria (H pylori) was the cause of the majority of peptic ulcers

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Barry Marshall

33
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discovered the live polio vaccine given orally

34
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discovered the dead polio vaccine by injection done before sabin

35
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classified streptococcus

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lancefield, rebecca

36
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discovered bacteriophage, an altered virus

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d’herelle, felix

37
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developed humoral phagocytic theory of immune response

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burnett and metchinkoff

38
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who discovered the tobacco mosaic virus

39
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what was the first virus every found

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tobacco mosaic virus

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