NURSING ANM AND GNM

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. He was christened Heinrich Herrmann Robert but dropped the first two names.

Detailed explanation-2: -During 1883, cholera was epidemic in Egypt. Koch traveled with a group of German colleagues from Berlin to Alexandria, Egypt in August, 1883. Following necropsies, they found a bacillus in the intestinal mucosa in persons who died of cholera, but not of other diseases.

Detailed explanation-3: -The germ responsible for cholera was discovered twice: first by the Italian physician Filippo Pacini during an outbreak in Florence, Italy, in 1854, and then independently by Robert Koch in India in 1883, thus favoring the germ theory over the miasma theory of disease.

Detailed explanation-4: -At the end of 1883, Koch and a team of researchers travelled, amongst others, to Calcutta in India to study the disease during an outbreak. There, at the beginning of 1884, he managed to identify the bacterium Vibrio cholerae.

Detailed explanation-5: -Tuberculosis (TB) is a serious illness affecting tissue, especially in the lungs. Robert Koch, who had conducted a range of important studies on illnesses caused by microorganisms, discovered and described the TB bacterium in 1882. He later studied tuberculin, a substance formed by tubercle bacteria.