MCQ IN MEDICINE

MEDICINE MCQ

INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
he French scientist Louis Pasteur concluded that ____ were the cause of most infectious diseases.
A
microorganisms
B
flies
C
cells
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -During the mid-to late 19th century Pasteur demonstrated that microorganisms cause disease and discovered how to make vaccines from weakened, or attenuated, microbes. He developed the earliest vaccines against fowl cholera, anthrax, and rabies.

Detailed explanation-2: -Still, it has been little more than a century and a half since Robert Koch made the discoveries that led Louis Pasteur to describe how small organisms called germs could invade the body and cause disease.

Detailed explanation-3: -Rabies and its invisible virus In 1880, Louis Pasteur’s experimental method was in full swing. He decided to apply it to the study of a human disease. He chose rabies because it affected not only humans, but also animals on which he could experiment.

Detailed explanation-4: -Louis Pasteur He was the first to demonstrate that infectious diseases are caused by microbes, disproved the concept of spontaneous generation (the idea that microbes could appear out of nothing), developed the process of pasteurization (as well as being its namesake), and developed some of the world’s first vaccines.

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