Essays Tagged: "Robert Koch"

Antibiotics

as the cause of disease, and proved wrong the theory of spontaneous generation. After him there was Robert Koch, who developed a method of isolating and growing bacteria. Scientists tried developing d ...

(4 pages) 89 0 4.3 Mar/1997

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

Anthrax This essay is simply entitled Anthrax. It is a brief description of the bacteria Anthrax and its effects on various aspects of life.

Egypt mentioned in The Bible. Casimir Davaine first saw these rod-shaped bacteria in 1850. In 1876, Robert Koch discovered that bacillus anthracis caused the Anthrax disease. Louis Pastaeu developed a ...

(1 pages) 176 5 3.3 Apr/2002

Subjects: Science Essays > Microbiology

Diseases In 19th Century America

ities of the 19th century. Advances in the control of this disease weren't reached until 1883, when Robert Koch, a German physician, discovered the causative agent of Cholera, the bacterium Vibrio Cho ... a pathological enlightenment. With the germ theory, and discoveries put forth by scientists such as Robert Koch, Carlos Finlay, Charles Alphonse Laveran, and Edward Trudeau the endemic and epidemic di ...

(4 pages) 106 2 4.8 May/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Anthrax The Disease

e organism was isolated in 1863 by C. J. Davaine, for which a pure culture was obtained in 1876, by Robert Koch who grew the organism to demonstrate its ability to form endospores and produced experim ...

(3 pages) 59 2 4.6 Sep/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

ANTHRAX-Weapon of Mass Destruction

g gum, fountain pens, hatpins, and even umbrellas tipped with the disease.Anthrax was discovered by Robert Koch, in 1877, which grew the organism in "pure culture". His original micrographs of the ant ...

(1 pages) 30 0 3.7 Feb/2005

Subjects: Science Essays

Cholera and Ebola: A Threat to Our Environmental Freedom

Ganges River serving as the primary contamination reservoir. Nearly 30 years later bacteriologists Robert Koch and John Snow found the link between Cholera and drinking water. Since its discovery in ...

(6 pages) 48 0 4.2 Jul/2005

Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science

Malaria Brief Informative Essay

Egypt mentioned in The Bible. Casimir Davaine first saw these rod-shaped bacteria in 1850. In 1876, Robert Koch discovered that bacillus anthracis caused the Anthrax disease. Louis Pastaeu developed a ...

(1 pages) 1947 2 3.7 May/2007

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

Infectious Diseases and Antibiotic resistance

ugh coughs, talking, laughing, singing or sneezing. These bacteria were first identified in 1882 by Robert Koch who described their appearance under the microscope as rod-shaped germs or bacilli. Anyo ...

(9 pages) 50 0 0.0 Aug/2008

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

Tuberculosis Biology Written Report - Intro, Transmissions, Symptoms, Treatments, Prevention.

enTransmissionInfectionsSymptomsTreatmentPreventionIntroductionFirst discovered by German physician Robert Koch, Tuberculosis (TB) is a chronic bacterial infection which can progress into TB disease w ...

(5 pages) 40 2 4.8 Feb/2009

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases