History

Question 1

diseases are caused by transferable spore like particles that can transmit infection of disease such as syphillis

Answer 1

Girolamo Fracastoro

Question 2

father of microbiology

Answer 2

Anton va Leeuwekhoek

Question 3

1st described microbes

Answer 3

Anton van Leeuwekhoek

Question 4

invented the 1st microscope

Answer 4

Anton van Leeuwekhoek

Question 5

introduced hand washing to prevent puerperal (childbirth) fever in the 1900’s

Answer 5

Ignazio Semmelweis

Question 6

first used antiseptic in surgery using carbolic acid

Answer 6

Joseph Lister

Question 7

the 1st to disprove spontaneous generation?

then the person that put the final nail in the coffin of spontaneous generation?

Answer 7

Lazzaro Spallanzani

then Louis Pasteur

Question 8

purposed the germ theory that states that many diseases are caused by microorganims

Answer 8

Louis Pasteur

Question 9

inventor of the pasteuriszation process

Answer 9

Louis Pasteur

Question 10

discovered the bacillus that caused anthrax

Answer 10

Robert Koch

Question 11

discovered TB vaccine

Answer 11

Robert Koch

Question 12

known as ___ postulates

what are these postulates

Answer 12

Robert Koch

1. agent must be found in all patients with disease
2. must be able to prepare and culture of the agent
3. injected agent must cause the same disease in new patients
4. must recover same organism from newly infected patient

Question 13

stated bacteria are capable of transferring genetic information by the process of transformation resulting in a more virulent form of the bacteria

Answer 13

Fedrick Griffith

Question 14

stated the transferring substance in replication is DNA

Answer 14

McCarty and Macleod

Question 15

discovered the structure of DNA

Answer 15

Watson and Crick

Question 16

discovered that bacterial chromosomes are circular

Answer 16

John Cairns

Question 17

promoted vaccination for smallpox

Answer 17

Mary Wortley Montagu

Question 18

promoted cowpox vaccination to protect against smallpox

Answer 18

Edward Jenner

Question 19

discovered penicillin

Answer 19

Alexander Fleming

Question 20

discovered the skin test for diphtheria

called the __ test

Answer 20

Schick

Question 21

stated public health outbreak of cholera was linked to water pumps

Answer 21

John Snow

Question 22

founded public health nursing

Answer 22

Florence Nightingale

Question 23

discovered the existence of viruses while working with tobacco plants

Answer 23

Dmitri Iwanowski
and
Beijerinck

Question 24

discovered yellow fever was transmitted by mosquitos

Answer 24

Walter Reed

Question 25

developed vaccines against rabies and anthrax

Answer 25

Louis Pasteur

Question 26

developed a 7 step process of staining bacteria

Answer 26

Hans Christian Gram 1. add crystal violet (blue stain) 2. wash off with H20 3. add iodine (fixer) 4. wash off with H20 5. add acetone alcohol (decolorizer - removes blue) 6. counter stain with safranin (red stain) 7. wash off with H20

Question 27

developed chemicals that kills microorganisms like syphillis

Answer 27

Paul Ehrlich

Question 28

discovered sulfa drugs and salvarsan

Answer 28

Paul Ehrlich

Question 29

made the 1st electron microscope which was used to prove existence of viruses

Answer 29

Ernst Ruska

Question 30

developed vaccine for polio using LIVE polio organisms

Answer 30

Albert Sabin - sabin your life from polio salk made killed version

Question 31

coined the term prion for diseases that were caused by protein particles such as Mad Cow Disease (cows) and Cruetzfeld Jacobs Diseae (humans)

Answer 31

Stanley Prusiner

Question 32

discovered a bacteria (H pylori) was the cause of the majority of peptic ulcers

Answer 32

Barry Marshall

Question 33

discovered the live polio vaccine given orally

Answer 33

sabin

Question 34

discovered the dead polio vaccine by injection done before sabin

Answer 34

salk

Question 35

classified streptococcus

Answer 35

lancefield, rebecca

Question 36

discovered bacteriophage, an altered virus

Answer 36

d'herelle, felix

Question 37

developed humoral phagocytic theory of immune response

Answer 37

burnett and metchinkoff

Question 38

who discovered the tobacco mosaic virus

Answer 38

iwanowski

Question 39

what was the first virus every found

Answer 39

tobacco mosaic virus