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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1. Medical Microbiology (Wikipedia)
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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)
Notable Specialists: George Miller Sternberg, Lead paragraph [specialist-in]Quote, Notable Specialists: George Miller Sternberg, Lead paragraph [specialist-in]
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
Odo Bujwid (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Odo Bujwid, Lead sentence [in-group]Quote, Notable Specialists: Odo Bujwid, Lead sentence [in-group]
pierwszy polski bakteriolog, pionier higieny i profilaktyki zdrowotnej
Aladár Aujeszky (source article)
Notable Specialists: Aladár Aujeszky, Lead sentence [in-group]Quote, Notable Specialists: Aladár Aujeszky, Lead sentence [in-group]
professor of bacteriology and microbiologist, noted for his work on pseudorabies
Charles Nicolle (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Charles Nicolle, Lead sentence [in-group]Quote, Notable Specialists: Charles Nicolle, Lead sentence [in-group]
was a French bacteriologist
Kiyoshi Shiga (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Kiyoshi Shiga, Lead paragraph [specialist-in]Quote, Notable Specialists: Kiyoshi Shiga, Lead paragraph [specialist-in]
made many advancements in bacteriology and immunology
Philippe Sansonetti (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Philippe Sansonetti, Lead sentence [specialist-in]Quote, Notable Specialists: Philippe Sansonetti, Lead sentence [specialist-in]
is a French microbiologist, professor at the Pasteur Institute
Victor Babeș (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Victor Babeș, Lead, professionQuote, Notable Specialists: Victor Babeș, Lead, profession
One of the founders of modern microbiology
Yuen Kwok-yung (source article)
Notable Specialists: Yuen Kwok-yung, CareerQuote, Notable Specialists: Yuen Kwok-yung, Career
Initially trained as a surgeon, he switched to being a physician, and then to a clinical microbiologist.
Ahmed Gaffer Hegazi (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Ahmed Gaffer Hegazi, Lead [specialist-in]Quote, Notable Specialists: Ahmed Gaffer Hegazi, Lead [specialist-in]
Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
Bernhard Fischer (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Bernhard Fischer, Lead [specialist-in]Quote, Notable Specialists: Bernhard Fischer, Lead [specialist-in]
was a German bacteriologist
Rudolf Blasius (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Rudolf Blasius, Lead paragraph [specialist-in]Quote, Notable Specialists: Rudolf Blasius, Lead paragraph [specialist-in]
was a German physician, bacteriologist, naturalist and ornithologist
Wilhelm von Drigalski (source article)
Notable Specialists: Wilhelm von Drigalski, Lead [in-group]Quote, Notable Specialists: Wilhelm von Drigalski, Lead [in-group]
was a German bacteriologist.
Bruno Weber (doctor) (source article)
Notable Specialists: Bruno Weber (doctor), Lead sentence [in-group]Quote, Notable Specialists: Bruno Weber (doctor), Lead sentence [in-group]
was a German physician, bacteriologist
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, Lead [specialist-in]Quote, Notable Specialists: Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, Lead [specialist-in]
was a Dutch microbiologist and microscopist
Hideyo Noguchi (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Hideyo Noguchi, Lead, specialtyQuote, Notable Specialists: Hideyo Noguchi, Lead, specialty
was a Japanese bacteriologist at the Rockefeller Institute during its foundation
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