Robert Koch Facts
Robert Koch Facts
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| Robert Koch was born in Clausthal, Germany and was the son of a mining engineer. |
| He showed early intellectual promise and taught himself to read by the age of five. |
| In 1862 he entered the University of Gottingen where he earned his M.D. in 1866. |
| In 1867 he became an Assistant in the hospital in Hamburg and in 1869 he passed the District Medical Officer Examination. |
| From 1872 to 1880 he was District Medical officer for Wollstein and it was here that he researched anthrax. |
| Although he had no laboratory and had to provide and even manufacture his own equipment, he was able to prove that anthrax was caused by a bacillus. |
| He further proved the ability of anthrax bacillus to sporulate when conditions were unfavorable. |
| In 1876 the results of his anthrax studies was published and he became famous. |
| In 1878 he published his study of the bacterial infections of wounds and provided practical information for infection control. |
| In 1880 he became a member of the Imperial Health Bureau in Berlin and was provided a laboratory and assistants. |
| He invented new methods of growing pure cultures of bacteria and developed new methods of staining to make them easier to identify. |
| In 1882 he discovered the tubercle bacillus and published his classical paper on it. |
| In 1883 he was sent to Egypt as Leader of the German Cholera Commission and it was there that he discovered the causative agent. |
| Because he discovered the cholera vibrio and its route of infection he was able to formulate rules to prevent and control epidemics of the disease. |
| His work with cholera earned him a prize of 100,000 Deutsche marks and influenced the development of sanitary water supplies. |
| In 1885 he became Professor of Hygiene at the University of Berlin. |
| In 1890 he became Surgeon General of Berlin. |
| In 1891 he became Director of the newly created Institute for Infectious Diseases. |
| In 1896 he west to South Africa to study disease in cattle and in 1898 he published his findings on malaria. |
| In 1906 he traveled to Central Africa where he studied human trypanosomiasis and proved that atoxyl is effective against the disease. |
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