mid ch1 Flashcards
Gastic ulcers cause by
Helicobacter
Infertility linked to
Chlamydia infection
Earliest record of microbes was from the work of
Robert Hooke
created the single-lens microscope
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Coined the word
“cell” to describe what he saw while
viewing tree bark from a cork oak
Robert Hooke
First person to accurately describe
living microbes.
Used a simple microscope (magnifying glass)
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
- worked with infusions
Louis Pasteur
- showed evidence that some
microbes have very high heat resistance and
are difficult to destroy
John Tyndall
discovered and described
endospores, term “sterile” was introduced to
mean the complete removal of all like forms,
including endospores
Ferdinand Cohn
introduced aseptic technique
Joseph Lister
The Germ Theory of Disease
Louis Pasteur
Verified the germ theory
Robert Koch