Germ Identification

The Germ Theory of Disease and Its Most Prominent Scientists:

Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch

Causes of Other Diseases

Koch's Postulates: After

With Koch's postulates, it then became possible to connect a pathogen and disease through cultivation and experimentation. Koch and his team continues to work on diseases and found the causes of suppuration(1878), tuberculosis (1882), and cholera (1883). Other scientists used the postulates and discovered other bacterial pathogens as seen in the timeline to the right.

(Timeline of disease discoveries, Science Direct)



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