01 History of Microbiology, branches of Microbiology .pdf

History of Microbiology

1. History of Microbiology

2. 1590: Hans and ZacharisJanssen
•First compound
microscope
•Crude (10x)
•No significant observation!
•‘Flea glasses’

3. Robert Hook: 1660

4. •1673-1723
•Described live
microorganisms
•“Animalcules”
Antonivan Leeuwenhoek

5. IgnazSemmelweis
Vienna Maternity Ward
Puerperal Sepsis

6. Variolation

7. Edward Jenner inoculating James Phipps with cowpox:
May 14
th
1796

8. Joseph Lister -1867

10. Paul Ehrlich
•Acid Fast Staining
•Chemotherapy
Magic Bullet
•Antibody
“Side chain therapy”

11. Alexander Fleming -1928

12. Early penicillin culture facility at the Sir William
Dunn School of Pathology, Oxford, England.

15. Christian Gram -1884

16. Louis Pasteur (1822-95)

17. Scientific Contributions
•Microbial fermentation
•Spontaneous generation theory x
•Aerobic & Anaerobic microorganisms
•Germ theory of disease
•Pasteurization
•Sterilization
•Anthrax vaccine
•Rabies Vaccine

18. Spontaneous Generation Theory

19. Rabies

20. Robert Koch (1843-1910)
•Scientific Contributions
•Bacteriological Techniques
•Staining
•Culture & Isolation
•Identification:
Anthrax bacillus
Tuberculosis bacillus
Cholera bacillus

22. 24
th
March 1882