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Microscopy
discovery of the very small
First used a microscope

published observations in Micrographia, 1665
Robert Hooke
Skilled in grinding lenses

Described "animolocules" in specimen of lake water
anton von leeuwenhoek
Life can spontaneously arise from non-living sources
Abiogenesis

Spontaneous Generation
Suggests maggots come from eggs, not rotting meat
Anton von Leeuwenhoek
When flies are prevented from landing on meat, maggots were not produced
Redi
Experiments with boiled broth
Spallanzani
Discredited spontaneous generation
Louis Pasteur
Understanding disease transmission

study of the source, cause and mode of transmission of disease
epidemiology
determined the source of blood poisoning in women during childbirth

hand-washing with chlorinated water
Ignaz semmelweis
Determined source of cholera transmission in London
John snow
Exposure to disease creates immunity
variolation
Developed vaccination
edward jenner
Proposed Germ Theory in 1862
Louis Pasteur
Used phenol during surgery to kill infections
Joseph Lister

Antisepsis
Formalized standards to identify germs with infectious disease
robert koch
first golden age of Microbiology
1854-1914
Adding gelatin to broth enabled the creation of colonies in petri dishes
Pure Culture techniques
Koch Postulates
same organism present in every case
Cultured organism
inject healthy animal
culture organism from sich animal
Focused on infection and immunity
Pasteur lab
anthrax and cholera experiments
pasteur lab
principles of vaccination
pasteur lab
isolation, culture & identification
koch lab
isolated tubercle, typhoid and diphtheria bacilli
koch lab
determined water is key to tuberculosis transmission
koch lab
Current areas of study
Disease
Environmental processes
understanding common life processes
Shapes & Number of prokaryotes
Spherical
Rods
Spiral
over 10 million
Domains of Prokaryotes
bacteria
archaea
Known viruses
over 3600
Virus replication / composition
DNA or RNA with protein coat

replicate using cell's machinery
Known fungi
over 70,000
Fungi live where
in food source
Fungi cause
both disease and cures
protista
Both free-living and symbiotic

can cause disease in humans
second golden age of microbiology
1943-1970
Model System bacteria
Escherichia Coli
discovered that bacteria can mutate to generate resistance to viral infection
salvador luria & max dulbruck
Early work on DNA as genetic material done by
Oswald Avery
Colin MacLeod
Maclyn McCarthy
Alfred Hershey
Martha Chase
Chemical to cure syphilis

Who, when, what?
Paul erlich
1910
Salvarsan
Mold that kills other bacteria
Name, created, discovered by, when
Penicillium
Penicillin
Alexander Fleming
1929
Third Golden age of Microbiology
Now
Annual death toll from infectious disease
15 million
T/F
Pathogens can cause more than one disease
TRUE
T/F
Pathogens can become resistant to antimicrobials
TRUE
T/F
Pathogens can be used for bioterrorism
TRUE
T/F
Pathogens can be engineered into Zombie Virus
UNKNOWN