Eli Metchnikoff: Annotated Bibliography

In the midst of the Industrial Revolution, the son of leather tanners provided the clarity needed to understand the behavior of microbes and applied this understanding to improve people’s daily life. This man, Louis Pasteur, succeeded in his medical investigations and continued to pursue his interest, despite objections given to him by his peers. The timeless work of Louis Pasteur in the areas of chemistry and microbiology provided the necessary foundation for the scientific study of immunology and stressed the importance of possessing a thorough understanding of the procedures involved in medical treatment.

In this experiment, we were given a sample of an unknown bacterium and asked to classify it based on its physical and metabolic properties. We hypothesized that the unknown organism was Alcaligenes faecalis, a motile Gram-negative bacillus that resides in water, soil, blood, urine, and feces (Herrera n.p.) It was first isolated in 1896 by Petruschky, who

There are many reasons for knowing the identity of microorganisms. The reasons range from knowing the causative agent of a disease in a patient, so as to know how it can be treated, to knowing the correct microorganism to be used for making certain foods or antibiotics. This study was done by applying all of the methods that I have been learned so far in the microbiology laboratory class for the identification of an unknown bacterium.

When looking at the holocaust, it is widely known the devastation and pain that was caused by the Nazis; however when inspecting the holocaust on a deeper level, it is evident that the Jews were exposed to unimaginable treatment and experimentation often overlooked in history discussions. When looking at “Night”, Elie Wiesel was helped by the doctors in the camp when his foot was severely infected; although this is not the experience he had, many Jews were mistreated and even killed by the doctors. Many Nazi doctors that were assigned to Jewish patients were later found to have exposed the patients to horrific medical experiments and unnecessary treatments that commonly led to their death.

-The germ theory led to the creation of vaccines, anti-toxins, antibiotics, and the development of laboratory-based pharmacology to help patients to get healthy.

I'm John, and I helped to discover, harvest, and study some of the most promising bacteria specimens found recently. Although I cannot accept all the credit for the research, it was the entire crew's effort.

Husband and wife Gladys Henry Dick and George Frederick Dick developed a vaccine in 1924 that was later eclipsed by penicillin in the 1940s. ("Scarlet Fever-Treatment") Alphonse Raymond Dochez (April 21, 1882-June 1964) was an American physician and disease researcher. He developed an antitoxin for scarlet fever and definitively established that viruses cause the common cold. Also, in Frankenstein, Alphonse is the name of Victor's father. (Tulalit)

“Rutherford had contacted Dr. Ackerman about a bacterium that the army had stored at USAMRIID. It had been discovered in East Africa. This particular bacterium had remarkable natural properties in that it kept animal cells from deteriorating after the process of death set in and nature’s natural cycle of cellular breakdown had begun.

On June 25th, 2015 I chose the test tube labeled #19. This test tube contained an unknown bacterium, and the purpose was to determine the unknown bacterium by the end of the semester. Throughout the course, I ran a series of differential tests that would lead me to discovering the characteristics of my unknown. These tests that I will discuss in this paper are vital to understanding the biochemical mechanisms that different bacteria can perform, therefore helping me identify my bacterium based on molecular differences. During the course of this paper, I will refer to my unknown as unk#19. Also, I would note that aseptic technique was performed throughout the entire experiment and subcultures were regularly made.

Imagine yourself living in the 1800s. Think of all of the inventions that made life easier, such as the telephone to communicate over long distances, or the typewriter to write formal letters to people. These were all important inventions that made life easier, but a biologist by the name of Joseph Lister had made some important discoveries in antiseptics that ended up saving the lives of people. In this paper, I will inform you about Lister’s early life and the degrees he earned from his educational background, his major contribution to the biological community and what people knew before his contribution, the scientists that inspired him and helped him, how knowledge of antiseptics has increased over time,

Flow Diagram Homework Assignment Name: Preetam Ganti Using the table below, explain the purpose of each of the steps of the Experimental Flow Diagram (Figure 1 from your lab manual – it is provided on the next page) for answering the two research questions guiding this laboratory investigation: 1. Is the bacterial contamination at these three farms due to the same plasmid or different plasmids? 2. What is the frequency of tetracycline resistant bacteria in the beef farm cultures?

One September in 1928, Fleming returned to his laboratory and noticed a culture of Staphylococcus aureus contaminated with mold. He saw that the colonies of bacteria surrounding this mold had been destroyed. What he had just

Many scientists say that several people saw his great idea and followed him on the way to discovery, but others opposed it. One of the followers was Louis Pasteur who seems to get most of the credit for the start of the germ theory. Pasteur was a French microbiologists and a dedicated man

Later in 1947, Vicent and his associates isolate the bacteria from pregnant women (Vincent et al., 1947; Zilbauer et al., 2008).It was not until the 1950’s that Elizabeth King first suggested these “vibrios” could be associated with the human enteric disease. King cultured them from the blood of infected individuals and was the first to study this human disease causing “Vibrio” species in depth (King, 1957). She observed that they grew at a distinctly higher optimum temperature than the other vibrios they were grouped with and referred to this subgroup as “related-vibrios” (King, 1957). Sebald and Véron formally separated these “related-vibrios” from the Vibrionaceae family and proposed the genus name Campylobacter (Greek meaning, a curved rod) in 1963 (Sebald & Véron, 1963). The differences which lead to this separation were their requirement for microaerophilic growth conditions, the DNA being of a low guanine and cytosine base composition, their non-fermentative metabolism and their elevated optimum growth temperature (Sebald & Véron,

Paul Ehrlich is a German Jewish medical scientist best known for finding the first most effective treatment for syphilis for which he got the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1908 with his accomplice Élie Metchnikoff. Paul ehrlich made huge commitments to comprehension cancer, including building up a strain of mouse tumor cells known as Ehrlich ascites cells that are still utilized as a part of growth exploration. Ehrlich's work with the selectivity of staining dyes for particular cells, and the particular tying of one antigen to stand out antibody, which prompted the theory that it ought to be conceivable to create drugs that were so particular to ailment cells that they could be viewed as "magic bullets." For his understanding and