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what was Louis Pasture the first to do
establish the link between germs and disease
what was Luis Pasteur known as
the farther of microbiology
what did Louis Pasteur argue
that microorganisms were responsible for disease and that if we could discover these microorganisms then a vaccine could be developed to specifically target the disease. He called them germs
what did Louis Pasteur develop
effective vaccines to target specific diseases
what animal and with which disease did Louis Pasteur first work on
his first work was on chicken cholera
what did Louis Pasteur’s work on chicken cholera lead to and in which year
an effective vaccine for rabies in 1880
what process did Louis Pasteur invent
pasteurisation
what is pasteurisation
a process to preserve liquids to stop them spoiling
what could Robert Koch do in the laboratory
he could link particular germs to particular diseases
what did Robert Koch identify in 1882
he identified the specific bacillus (rod shaped bacteria) that casued tuberculosis
when did Robert Koch discover the bacillus that caused cholera
1883 and 1884
what did Robert Koch’s discovery of the bacillus for cholera in 1883 and 1884 confirm?
confirming the work of John Snow in Britain in 1854
