Origin Antonie van Leeuwenhoek was the first to observe microorganisms under a microscope, in 1676; the germ-theory foundations of the modern field are usually credited to Louis Pasteur, whose 1857 work led to vaccines against anthrax, cholera and rabies, and to Robert Koch, called the father of medical bacteriology, whose postulates linking a microbe to a disease date from 1876 to 1884.
Medical microbiology is the branch of medical science concerned with the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of infectious disease, studying the bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites that cause it. This atlas records what the historical record supports and is not medical advice.
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Origin PeriodSourced to the subject's own accountAntonie van Leeuwenhoek was the first to observe microorganisms under a microscope, in 1676; the germ-theory foundations of the modern field are usually credited to Louis Pasteur, whose 1857 work led to vaccines against anthrax, cholera and rabies, and to Robert Koch, called the father of medical bacteriology, whose postulates linking a microbe to a disease date from 1876 to 1884. 1 Classification
Type/ClassificationSourced to the subject's own account Medical Microbiology
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Medical microbiology, the large subset of microbiology that is applied to medicine, is a branch of medical science concerned with the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of infectious diseases.
History section, opening sentence
In 1676, Anton van Leeuwenhoek observed bacteria and other microorganisms, using a single-lens microscope of his own design.
- Medical microbiology as a laboratory diagnostic specialty
Associated With: Malaria, Commonly treated infectious diseases section, Parasitic subsection
Malaria
Associated With: Typhoid Fever, Commonly treated infectious diseases section, Bacterial subsection
Typhoid fever
View the Source Hans Christian Gram (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Hans Christian Gram, Lead sentenceQuote, Notable Specialists: Hans Christian Gram, Lead sentence
was a Danish bacteriologist
George Miller Sternberg (Wikipedia)
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considered the first American bacteriologist
Friedrich Loeffler (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Friedrich Loeffler, BiographyQuote, Notable Specialists: Friedrich Loeffler, Biography
rendered an important and lasting service to bacteriology
Julius Richard Petri (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Julius Richard Petri, Lead paragraph, profession [specialist-in]Quote, Notable Specialists: Julius Richard Petri, Lead paragraph, profession [specialist-in]
was a German microbiologist
Joachim Mrugowsky (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Joachim Mrugowsky, Lead sentence [specialist-in]Quote, Notable Specialists: Joachim Mrugowsky, Lead sentence [specialist-in]
was a Nazi bacteriologist
Hans Reiter (physician) (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Hans Reiter (physician), First World War, Weil's diseaseQuote, Notable Specialists: Hans Reiter (physician), First World War, Weil's disease
made his first notable discovery that one of the causative bacteria were Leptospira icterohaemorrhagica
Friedrich Julius Rosenbach (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Friedrich Julius Rosenbach, Lead paragraph [specialist-in]Quote, Notable Specialists: Friedrich Julius Rosenbach, Lead paragraph [specialist-in]
was a German physician and microbiologist
Richard Friedrich Johannes Pfeiffer (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Richard Friedrich Johannes Pfeiffer, Lead [specialist-in]Quote, Notable Specialists: Richard Friedrich Johannes Pfeiffer, Lead [specialist-in]
was a German physician and bacteriologist
Georg Theodor August Gaffky (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Georg Theodor August Gaffky, Lead paragraph [in-group]Quote, Notable Specialists: Georg Theodor August Gaffky, Lead paragraph [in-group]
was a Hanover-born bacteriologist best known for identifying bacillus salmonella typhi as the cause of typhoid disease in 1884
Rabinowitsch-Kempner, Lydia (Neue Deutsche Biographie)
Notable Specialists: Lydia Rabinowitsch-Kempner, NDB BiographieQuote, Notable Specialists: Lydia Rabinowitsch-Kempner, NDB Biographie
Im selben Jahr erhielt sie als erste und einzige Frau eine Anstellung bei Robert Koch
Joseph Schroeter (Deutsche Biographie)
Notable Specialists: Joseph Schröter, ADB, Schroeter, Joseph, biography [specialist-in]Quote, Notable Specialists: Joseph Schröter, ADB, Schroeter, Joseph, biography [specialist-in]
Er las über Bakteriologie sowie über andere Zweige der Pilzkunde
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