MCQ IN MEDICINE

Detailed explanation-1: -Robert Koch was the man who, building on the work of Pasteur and Lister, set bacteriology on its way to being a modern science. He discovered the causative organisms of anthrax, septicæmia, tuberculosis and cholera.

Detailed explanation-2: -In the final decades of the 19th century, Koch conclusively established that a particular germ could cause a specific disease. He did this by experimentation with anthrax. Using a microscope, Koch examined the blood of cows that had died of anthrax. He observed rod-shaped bacteria and suspected they caused anthrax.

Detailed explanation-3: -For his discovery of the tuberculosis bacterium he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1905. Together with Louis Pasteur, Robert Koch is now thought of as the pioneer of microbiology. Robert Koch was born to a mining family in Clausthal in the Harz region of Germany on 11 December 1843.

Detailed explanation-4: -Historical Perspectives Centennial: Koch’s Discovery of the Tubercle Bacillus. On March 24, 1882, Robert Koch announced to the Berlin Physiological Society that he had discovered the cause of tuberculosis.

Detailed explanation-5: -The natural history of the disease was, nevertheless, far from complete. It was at that point that Koch began. He cultivated the anthrax organisms in suitable media on microscope slides, demonstrated their growth into long filaments, and discovered the formation within them of oval, translucent bodies-dormant spores.