MRCP UK EXAMINATIONS

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -The tubercle bacillus discovered by Robert Koch in 1882 was termed Mycobacterium tuberculosis in 1886. This organism was later found to be only one of many acid fast bacilli, some of which caused diseases resembling tuberculosis in various animals and some lived freely as saprophytes.

Detailed explanation-3: -Robert Koch’s discovery of the tubercle bacillus in 1882 was a major event in the history of medicine, a turning point in our understanding and conquest of that deadly disease which had plagued mankind for millenia.

Detailed explanation-4: -On 24 March 1882 at the Berlin Institute for Physiology, Koch announced the discovery of the tuberculosis pathogen – with his lecture on the “Aetiology of Tuberculosis” he became world famous overnight. In the course of the 19th century, tuberculosis had become a widespread disease.