MICROPARALAB 6

• Anthony Van Leeuwenhoek - 1st to see bacteria [bacterium] and protozoa [field of lenses]
• ANTHONY VAN LEUWENHOOK - lens maker and in one of his production he saw microorganisms
• Anthony Van Leeuwenhoek - Father of Microbiology
• Otto Müller - extended van Leeuwenhoek’s studies
• Otto Müller - organized bacteria into genera and species according to the   classification methods of Carolus Linnaeus.
• Friedrich Henle - in 1840, proposed criteria for proving that microorganisms were responsible for causing human disease
• Robert Koch and Louis Pasteur - confirmed this theory in the 1870s and 1880s with a series of elegant experiments
• Robert Koch - described methods of preparing cultures
• Robert Koch - discovered the causative agents of tuberculosis
• Paul Ehrlich - discovered the first antibacterial agent against the spirochete that causes syphilis
• spirochete - it causes syphilis
• era of chemotherapy began in 1910
• arsenical compound - SALVARSAN - magic bullet
• Alexander Fleming - developed penicillin
• penicillin was developed in 1929
• penicillin was developed from a fungus called Penicillium