NURSING EXAM QUESTIONS
MICROBIOLOGY
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Louis Pasteur
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Robert Koch
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Antonie von Leeuwenhoeck
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Thucydides
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -Indeed, almost 90 years after Jenner initiated immunization against smallpox, Pasteur developed another vaccine-the first vaccine against rabies. He had decided to attack the problem of rabies in 1882, the year of his acceptance into the Académie Française.
Detailed explanation-3: -Louis Pasteur is the renowned chemist and microbiologist of the 19th century involved in the development of the rabies vaccine.
Detailed explanation-4: -The discovery of the chicken cholera vaccine by Louis Pasteur revolutionized work in infectious diseases and can be considered the birth of immunology.