NURSING EXAM QUESTIONS
MICROBIOLOGY
Question
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Which scientist created a set of rules to identify the germ responsible for causing diseases?
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Pasteur
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Semmelweis
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Snow
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Koch
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Developed in the 19th century, Robert Koch’s postulates are the four criteria designed to assess whether a microorganism causes a disease.
Detailed explanation-2: -Still, it has been little more than a century and a half since Robert Koch made the discoveries that led Louis Pasteur to describe how small organisms called germs could invade the body and cause disease.
Detailed explanation-3: -Koch’s Postulates, which prove both that specific germs cause specific diseases and that disease germs transmit disease from one body to another, are fundamental to the germ theory.
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