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Robert Hooke

Created compound microscope


Wrote Micrographia


Observed small empty chambers in the structures of cork with the help of his crude microscope and called them "cells"

Antonie van Leewenhoek

Father of Microbiology


Perfected his "microscope"


Described animalcules in pond water and teeth plaque


Microscope magnified to 300x

Schleiden & Schwann

Formalized the "cell theory" that all living things are comprised of cells

Ignaz Semmelweiss

1st clean freak: hand washing advocate to not go from an autopsy to maternity ward

Joseph Lister

Listerine is named after him


1st antisceptic surgeon


Advocated handwashing & sterlizing the air & patient with carbolic acid

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr

Advocated handwashing to prevent childbed fever


Mixed medical field with poetry


Wrote Old Ironsides

Louis Pasteur

Series of experiments to prove germ theory (swan necks on flasks)


Developed the pasteurization technique


Eventually developed vaccines for anthrax & rabies

Robert Koch

Koch's postulates- proofs that verifies the germ theory


Proved Bacillius anthracis causes anthrax

Julius Petri

Invented the petri dish

Alexander Flemming

Observed bread mold killed bacteria on a plate; lead to the discovery of the 1st antibiotic penicillin

Watson & Crick

Double helix structure of DNA

Paul Berg

Develops 1st recombinant DNA in a test tube

Stanley Cohen

1st DNA clones useing recombinant DNA

David Ho

"Cocktail" of drugs to treat AIDS

Mycrobacterium Tuberculosum

Tuberculosis

Bacillus anthracis

Anthrax

Rickettsia rickettsii

Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever

Chlamydia trachomatis

Chlamydia

Clostridium botulinum

Botulism food poisoning

Clostridium tetani

Tetnus

Clostridium perfringens

Gangrene

Mycloplasm pneumoniae

Mycroplasmal pneumonia

Escherchia coli

E. coli Normal Intestinal Flora; food poisioning

Salmonella typhi

Typhoid Fever

Shigella dysenteriae

Bacterial dysentery

Cornybacterium diptheriae

Diptheria

Streptococcus pyrogenes

Pharyngitis, Impetigi, Ear Infections

Vibrio cholerae

Cholera epidemics

Treponema pallidum

Syphilis

Staphylococcus aureus

Staph Infections of the Skin

Neisseriae gonorrhoeae

Gonorrhea STD

Candida albicans

Yeast Infection

Penicillium sp.

Fungus that produces Penicillin

Trichophyton sp.

Athletes Foot

Histoplasm capsulatum

Histoplasmosis

Rhizopus sp.

Bread Mold

Adpergillus sp.

Fungal pnemonia

Trichomonas vaginalis

Trichomoniasis STD

Trypanosoma cruzi (lewisi)

African Sleeping Chagas Disease

Entamoeba histolytica

Amoebic dysentery

Plasmodium vivax

Malaria

Trichuris trichiura

Whipworm

Enterobius vermicularius

Pinworm

Ascaris lumbricoides

Ascaris Worm

Taenia solium and saginata

Pork Tapeworm - Beef Tapeworm

Bacterial Morphology

Cocci, Baccillus, and Spirillum

Colonial Morphology

Size, Hemolysis, Form, Surface, Elevation, Color, & Light Transmittal