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Chapter 1 A Brief History of Microbiology
Chapter 1 A Brief History of Microbiology
Additional reading: Blevins and Bronze. 2010. Robert Koch and the golden age of
bacteriology. -- on eReserve at Library
You need only peruse final section of chapter: The Modern Age of Microbiology
While we will not now be covering all of the historic individuals presented in this chapter, several will be brought
up later in the semester (e.g., Jenner, Snow, Ehrlich, etc), so this is a good time to familiarize yourself with many of
the key figures in the history of microbiology
Bookworm
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The Disease
of animals & humans
modes of exposure
-- cutaneous
-- gastrointestinal
-- pulmonary
Bioterrorism potential
Wikipedia link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthrax
Eschar lesion
History and Microscropy
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