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History of Medicine Blog Series: Robert Koch, Untersuchungen über die Aetiologie der Wundinfectionskrankheiten (1878)
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Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch (December 11, 1843 - May 27, 1910) was a German physician and microbiologist. As the founder of modern bacteriology, he identified the causative agents of tuberculosis, cholera, and
Nobel Prize - German physician Robert Koch, born on this day in 1843, discovered the bacterium that causes tuberculosis (TB) In the 1800s, the disease caused as many as a quarter of
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