As of early 2025, tuberculosis cases are increasing in the U.S. This disease causes significant lung damage and, if not treated, is almost always lethal. World TB Day on March 24 raises awareness ...

As 2005 marks the 100th anniversary of Robert Koch receiving the Nobel Prize for ... which would be instrumental in his discovery of M. tuberculosis. Working outside the university system, Koch ...

But as Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch popularized the germ theory of infection in the late 1870s, scientists began searching for a bacterial species responsible for the disease. Two scientists even ...

Louis Pasteur demonstrated that microorganisms cause disease and introduced pasteurization. Robert Koch identified the anthrax bacterium and established methods for studying microorganisms.

More than 100 years ago, the German physician and Nobel Prize winner Robert Koch predicted that “one day mankind will have to fight the burden of noise as fiercely as plague and cholera.” He was right ...

The awe-inspiring size of the experiments performed today — such as studies of entire microbial communities — is the result of a centuries-long path of discovery ... and Robert Koch's attempts ...