The Germ Theory of Disease Flashcards
1
Q
Who founded the field of Pathology?
A
Giovanni Morgagni
2
Q
Which two people developed vaccines?
A
Edward Jenner
Louis Pasteur
3
Q
What disease did Dr Alexander Gordon first describe?
A
Puerperal Fever (Childbed Fever)
4
Q
What bacterium causes Peurperal Fever (Childbed Fever)?
A
Streptococcus pyogenes
5
Q
What two doctors work led to the eradication of Puerperal Fever (Childbed Fever)?
A
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Ignaz Semmelweis
6
Q
What are Kochs Postulates?
A
- The microorganism must be found in in abundance in organisms suffering from the disease, but not in healthy organisms. 2. The microorganism must be isolated and grown in pure culture. 3. The cultured microorganism should cause disease when introduced into a healthy organism. 4. The microorganism must be preisolated from the inoculated, diseased experimental host, and identified.
7
Q
Define Attenuation
A
The loss of virulence over time
8
Q
Who discovered heat resistant spores in Bacillus?
A
Ferdinand Cohn
