(WHTM) — On March 24, 1882, a German physician and researcher, Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch (1814-1910), announced the discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the microbe that causes tuberculosis.

Dr Robert Koch was a pivotal figure in the golden age of microbiology. It was the German bacteriologist who discovered the bacteria that causes anthrax, septicaemia, tuberculosis and cholera, and ...

Treating TB might not be big business, ... It was March 24, 1882, and a little-known German physician named Robert Koch was about to make history.

World TB Day commemorates the date in 1882 when Dr. Robert Koch announced his discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacillus that causes TB. Skip to content Show You Care ...

The team, led by Robert Koch’s close friend Carl Flügge, found that guinea pigs placed nearby rarely caught tuberculosis as a result. Perhaps, Flügge thought, TB didn’t depend on dust at all.

Robert Koch (1843?1910), who isolated Mycobacterium tuberculosis in 1882 and proved that it caused tuberculosis, announced at a medical congress in Berlin eight years later that he had developed a ...

Although Robert Koch's Nobel Prize was for discovering the cause of TB, his greater achievement may have been in developing cloning, an expert argues. Koch devised a method for growing individual ...

Mycobacterium tuberculosis is a near-perfect predator. In 1882, Robert Koch, the physician who discovered the microbe, told a room full of scientists that it caused one in seven of all deaths.

The day serves to recognise Dr Robert Koch's 1882 achievement of identifying the TB bacterial pathogen because this discovery enabled effective medical diagnosis and therapy for the disease.

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 ...

DENIES OLD BELIEFS ABOUT TUBERCULOSIS; Dr. Koch Says Cattle Cannot Infect Human Beings. LITTLE DANGER IN HEREDITY Chief Source of Contagion the Sputum of Consumptives -- Belief that the Disease ...