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Originally published at AnimalResearch.Info Proving the germ theory of disease was the crowning achievement of the French scientist Louis Pasteur. He was not the first to propose that diseases were caused by microscopic organisms, but the view was controversial in the 19th century, and opposed the accepted theory of “spontaneous generation”. Pasteur set out to understand the fermentation process, and …

Then Pasteur solved the problem of failed silk crops (diseased silk worms), cholera in chickens, anthrax in cattle and sheep, and, in the mid-1880s, rabies. He recognized that nerve tissue from a rabid dog injected into healthy dogs produced rabies. He then developed a weakened virus (although viruses were then unknown), now termed an attenuated virus, which prevented rabies in …

An excerpt from Bacteria in Relation to Plant Diseases, published in 1905 Among the multitude of workers in animal pathology and bacteriology during the last thirty-five years certain men tower far above the rest, their contributions to science having been more conspicuous and their imprint on their generation more lasting. If France is mentioned, we think at once of Pasteur, …

DISCOVERED sometime in 1800s, antibiosis, as what antibiotics were originally called, was first discovered by Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch when they learned that certain airborne bacteria could inhibit the growth of another bacteria what is now called Anthrax. Read the full article…

While today it is a feared weapon of bioterrorism Bacillus anthracis has played a significant historical role, especially through the research of the celebrated 19th century scientists Robert Koch and Louis Pasteur, in shaping our understanding of infectious diseases and immunology. Read the full article…