NURSING ANM AND GNM

NURSING EXAM QUESTIONS

MICROBIOLOGY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
He recognized the bacterial cause of anthrax and developed a vaccine for it-1880s
A
Louis Pasteur
B
Edward Jenner
C
James Lind
D
Robert Koch
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Louis Pasteur, another prominent scientist, took Koch’s work a step further, trying to fully prove how anthrax was spread and how it made people or animals sick. Pasteur also worked to create a vaccine for anthrax .

Detailed explanation-2: -Hypothesizing the technique could be extended to other diseases, Louis Pasteur continued to explore illnesses in the pursuit of new vaccines. In 1881, he helped develop a vaccine for anthrax, which was used successfully in sheep, goats and cows.

Detailed explanation-3: -On July 6, 1885, Louis Pasteur and his colleagues injected the first of 14 daily doses of rabbit spinal cord suspensions containing progressively inactivated rabies virus into 9-year-old Joseph Meister, who had been severely bitten by a rabid dog 2 days before.

Detailed explanation-4: -Pasteur began investigating anthrax in 1879. At that time an anthrax epidemic in France and in some other parts of Europe had killed a large number of sheep, and the disease was attacking humans as well. German physician Robert Koch announced the isolation of the anthrax bacillus, which Pasteur confirmed.

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