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German bacteriologist Robert Koch won the 1905 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine. Known as the father of modern bacteriology, Koch proved that infectious diseases were caused by microorganisms and developed techniques for isolating and identifying disease-causing bacteria.
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Robert Koch, a German physician and scientist, presented his discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium that causes tuberculosis (TB), on the evening of March 24, 1882. He began by reminding the audience of terrifying statistics: "If the importance of a disease for mankind is measured by the number of fatalities it causes, then tuberculosis must be considered much more important than those most feared infectious diseases, plague, cholera and the like. One in seven of all human beings dies from tuberculosis. If one only considers the productive middle-age groups, tuberculosis carries away one-third, and often more."
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[One] pioneer in bacteriology was the German physician Robert Koch, who showed how bacteria could be cultivated, isolated, and examined in the laboratory. A meticulous investigator, Koch discovered the organisms of tuberculosis, in 1882, and cholera, in 1883. By the end of the century many other disease-producing microorganisms had been identified.
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Commonly referred to simply as TB, tuberculosis is an infectious disease discovered and identified in 1882 by the German physician Robert Koch. The tubercle bacillus is a small, rod-shaped bacterium that can survive for months in a state of dryness and can ... resist the action of mild disinfectants.
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