MCB 300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 31: Opportunistic Infection, Growth Medium, Microorganism

• School: University of Illinois
• Department: Molecular and Cell Biology
• Course: MCB 300
• Professor: C Vanderpool

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Mcb 300, lecture 31: pathogenic microbe-host interactions-v:studying the virulence of. Pathogenic microbes how to detect and assign a microbe as the causative agent of. Premise: preventing and treating an infectious disease requires identification of the disease-causing microbe. Task: prove that a *specific* microbe is responsible for causing the infectious disease (i. e. causality). The dark side of microbehost interactions overcoming superstitions, fears, and. Disbelief evolution of the germ theory of disease. Evolution of the germ theory of disease. John snow (1813-1858) traced the source of a cholera outbreak in london in. - importantly, pasteur was able to convince most of europe at the time that microorganisms grow from pre-existing microorganisms. - pasteur"s research showed that microbes caused beer, wine, and milk to spoil. Robert koch (1843 1910) bacillus anthracis 1877 mycobacterium tuberculosis. Raising the bar: the rise of koch"s postulates (sometimes referred to as koch"s original hypotheses)