Robert Koch and bacteria

• Robert Koch


  German doctor who successfully identified some of the different bacteria that cause common diseases
• Robert Koch's method of growing bacteria

  1. Using agar jelly in a Petri dish

  2. Staining the bacteria with dye

  3. Observing under a microscope
• Robert Koch's discoveries


  • Identified the bacteria that cause anthrax, tuberculosis and cholera
• Robert Koch's work


  Greatly improved medicine in Britain as doctors now understood bacteria caused disease symptoms
• Vaccine


  A substance that stimulates the body to produce antibodies to provide immunity against a disease
• Pasteur's work on vaccines


  Built on Koch's identification of specific disease-causing bacteria
• Vaccines developed by Pasteur

  • For anthrax, chicken cholera, rabies
• Pasteur's rabies vaccine in 1885 was the first successful vaccine since Jenner's smallpox vaccine
• Robert Koch in his laboratory. He is using a microscope while surrounded by circular petri dishes