The timeless legacy of Robert Koch |
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| Authors: | Jaya S Tyagi |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of Biotechnology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, 110029 New Delhi, India |
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| Abstract: | Robert Koch was a German physician and scientist who I made wide-ranging contributions to the study of infectious diseases.
He is credited with developing medical microbiology as a new and independent discipline. He is most j renowned for deciphering
the etiology of tuberculosis (TB), anthrax and cholera. He laid down rigorous guidelines for establishing the link between
a pathogen and a particular disease that came to be known as Koch’s postulates. To this day these postulates serve as benchmarks
in the study of infectious diseases. |
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| Keywords: | Koch’ s postulates tuberculosis anthrax medical microbiology |
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