Lecture 1 History of Microbes Flashcards
Who is the father of microbiology?
Antonie leeu
- developed advanced microscopes 300x
What is Koch’s postulates?
- pathogens must be present only in diseased animals and absent in healthy
- pathogens must be isolated in pure colony
- pathogen must cause disease in healthy animals
- pathogen must be reisolated and remain the same
Who invented the first microscope?
Robert Hooke
Germ theory
Germs are invisible living creatures that cause infections and diseases
What is spontaneous germination and how was it debunked?
Viruses arise from non-living things.
- aligned with religion beliefs
Competing theories
Miasma
- germs came from toxic vapours
Germ theory debunked it
- swan neck experiment by Louise Pasteur
- illustrated that microbes are everywhere
Francesco Reid also (maggots in meat)
What are the 3 domains of life
Bacteria, Archaea, Eurkarya
Who linked microbes with infectious diseases?
Robert Koch
-found causative agent of tuberculosis
Martinus did what?
tobacco virus
Who discovered agar plating
Fanny Hesse
Sergei Winogradsky?
discovered chemolithotrophy
nitrification
