RESPIRATORY
OLD TUBERCULOSIS
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Luis Pasteur
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Anthony van Leeuwenhoek
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Robert Koch
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Marcello Malpighi
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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: -In August 1890, Robert Koch dramatically announced that he had discovered a cure for tuberculosis, and the world rejoiced. The miracle substance was subsequently revealed to be tuberculin, inoculated as a ‘vaccine therapy’.
Detailed explanation-3: -Now Koch demonstrated that tuberculosis was triggered by the tubercle bacillus. In order to trace it, special culture media, new culturing conditions and specific dyeing techniques were required. For his discovery of the tuberculosis bacterium Robert Koch was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1905.
Detailed explanation-4: -He discovered the causative organisms of anthrax, septicæmia, tuberculosis and cholera.
Detailed explanation-5: -On March 24, 1882, Dr. Robert Koch announced the discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacteria that causes tuberculosis (TB).