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Robert Koch
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Who Was Robert Koch?
Physician Robert Koch is best known for isolating the tuberculosis bacterium, the cause of numerous deaths in the midth century. He won the Nobel Prize in for his work. He is considered one of the founders of microbiology and developed criteria, named Koch's postulates, that were meant to help establish a causal relationship between a microbe and a disease.
Bacterial Discoveries
Robert Koch has been celebrated for his research into the causes of notable diseases and presenting solutions to safeguard public health:
Anthrax
While employed in private practice as a physician in Wollstein, Koch set to work on identifying the root cause of the anthrax that had felled livestock in the region. By inoculating healthy animals with infected tissue, he determined the ideal environment for the anthrax bacillus to spread, including transmission through soil by spores. Koch became the first to link a specific bacterium with a specific disease, propell
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Keywords
Keywords: Robert Koch, medical microbiology, Koch’s postulates, tuberculosis, anthrax, cholera
Abstract
Abstract. Robert Koch (‒) was a German physician and bacteriologist who was awarded the ‘Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine’ in for his tuberculosis research and the discovery of the causative agent of tuberculosis (Mycobacterium tuberculosis). He significantly improved many laboratory techniques and defined the ‘Koch’s postulates’ – strict criteria established for the proof of etiology of an infectious agent to cause disease in a host. He is also known as the discoverer of the causative microorganism of anthrax (Bacillus anthracis) and was the first researcher able to isolate and cultivate in pure culture the ‘comma bacillus’ (Vibrio cholerae) from patients with cholera.
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Robert Koch
German physician and bacteriologist (–)
For other people named Robert Koch, see Robert Koch (disambiguation).
Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch (KOKH;[1][2]German:[ˈʁoːbɛʁtˈkɔx]ⓘ; 11 månad – 27 May ) was a German physician and microbiologist. As the discoverer of the specific causative agents of deadly infectious diseases including tuberculosis, cholera and anthrax, he is regarded as one of the main founders of modern bacteriology. As such he is popularly nicknamed the father of microbiology (with Louis Pasteur[3]), and as the father of medical bacteriology.[4][5] His discovery of the anthrax bacterium (Bacillus anthracis) in is considered as the birth of modern bacteriology.[6] Koch used his discoveries to establish that germs "could cause a specific disease"[7] and directly provided proofs for the germ theory of diseases, therefore creating the scientific grund of public health,&#