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History of Microbiology

History of Microbiology. Chapter 1. Microbiology. The study of organisms too small to be seen individually with the naked eye during part or all of their life cycle. Types of Microbes. Scientific Nomenclature. Bacillus anthracis. Genus. Species. Why does it have to be Latin?.

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History of Microbiology

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  1. History of Microbiology Chapter 1

  2. Microbiology The study of organisms too small to be seen individually with the naked eye during part or all of their life cycle.

  3. Types of Microbes

  4. Scientific Nomenclature Bacillus anthracis Genus Species

  5. Why does it have to be Latin?

  6. The History before Microbiology

  7. The Dawn of Microbiology

  8. The Golden Age of Microbiology

  9. “In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind.” Louis Pasteur, 1854

  10. “From my numerous observations, I conclude that these tubercle bacilli occur in all tuberculosis disorders, and that they are distinguishable from all other microorganisms.” Robert Koch, 1882

  11. “…it appears that all that is requisite is to dress the wound with some material capable of killing these septic germs…” Joseph Lister, 1867

  12. The Age of Antibiotics

  13. “One sometimes finds what one is not looking for.”Alexander Fleming

  14. “It looks like a miracle.” Howard Florey, upon testing penicillin in mice

  15. “From the moment he is born to the moment he dies, man is subject to the activities of numerous microbes.” Selman Waksman, 1952

  16. The Post Antibiotic Age?

  17. “The genie is out of the bottle... it will happen again... the only question is when and where.” Donald Law, 2002 on the emergence of VRSA

  18. “If we generate a lot of this form of TB we will have pushed ourselves back to the pre-antibiotic days of the last century” Jeremiah Chakaya on the XDR-TB epidemic

  19. 2010 58 Countries 2008 49 Countries

  20. Remember that not all Microbes are bad.

  21. “There is no Age of Dinosaurs or Age of Man, it has always been and will always be the Age of Bacteria” Stephen Jay Gould

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