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Robert Koch
Definition
- Robert Koch is considered one of the founders of modern bacteriology and a key contributor to the etiology of diseases, along with Louis Pasteur. He isolated several disease-causing bacteria, including those for anthrax (1877), tuberculosis (1882), and cholera (1883), and developed Koch's postulates criteria for ascertaining the microbial causes of a specific disease. [Source: Encyclopedia of Epidemiology; Koch, Robert (1843–1910)]
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/Robert_Koch
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