(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 ...

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 ...

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. In ...

A medical worker shows an X-ray of tuberculosis-infected lungs. JAM STA ROSA/AFP via Getty Images It was March 24, 1882, and a little-known German physician named Robert Koch was about to make ...

World TB Day commemorates the date in 1882 when Dr. Robert Koch announced his discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacillus that causes TB.

Although Robert Koch's Nobel Prize was for discovering the cause of TB, his greater achievement may have been cloning, an expert argues.

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.

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 ...

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.

LONDON, July 24 -- The principal feature of yesterday's session of the British Congress on Tuberculosis was Prof. Robert Koch's paper, which was listened to with the deepest interest by a big ...

The romantic disease. Monday, March 24th, was World Tuberculosis Day, which celebrates the discovery of mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacteria that causes tuberculosis, by Robert Koch in 1882. At ...