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Simply define medical microbiology
It's the study of causative agents of infectious diseases in humans, and reactions to such infections
Medical Microbiology involves
etiology
pathogenesis
lab diagnosis
specific treatment
control of infection(immunization)
mention the divisions of microbiology
Bacteriology
virology
immunology
mycology (study of fungi and their pathogenesis)
protozoology(pathogenic unicellular animal organism)
Who discovered living cells and devised the simple microscope and when?
Robert Hooke, 1665
Father of microbiology? The discoverer of bacterial(animacules)
Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek
Whose work began the Golden age of microbiology?
Pasteur's work
Who discovered the germ theory of disease and mycobacterium tuberculosis and when?
Robert Koch(1867)
State the kochs postulates
Pathogens must be in all cases of the diseases
Pathogen must be isolated and grown in lab, pure culture
Pathogenesis must cause the disease when introduced in healthy lab animals
Pathogen must be isolated from diseased lab animals
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