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    Robert Koch was born in 1843, His father was a mining engineer. In 1862 University of Göttingen to study medicine. Koch was influenced by Jacob Heine, the professor of anatomy. Koch took his M.D. degree in 1866, After getting his M.D.he went to Berlin for six months and was under the influence of Virchow. In 1867 Koch settled in hamburg as an assistant in the general of the hospital.He then went to Rackwitz, in the province of posen. He passed his district Medical Officer's Examination at Rackwitz

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    Europe faced an era of revolutions at the wake of the nineteenth century. Long-standing empires, which had traditionally controlled most of the world –including the Spanish, Chinese, French, and Holy Roman Empires –, collapsed at the beginning of the century, allowing the British Empire to rise to power and establish dominance over a fifth of the Earth’s surface. This political revolution was coupled with the industrial revolution. New manufacturing processes called for large industrial factories

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    and can even be found naturally occurring in our food and environment. To change the stigma that comes with bacteria, it had to be studied and researched and one of those methods of research would be the streaking method. Streaking, created by Robert Koch, is a technique used to isolate a pure stain of species of microorganism . Samples are taken from the resulting

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    of medicine and surgery. Robert Koch, Louis Pasteur, and Joseph Lister contributed to the ever-changing germ theory that started many profound discoveries and understandings. It takes

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    derives from the word coal, similar to the black skin leisures it produces. The first clinical cases of Anthrax were described around 1752 and 1769 by Maret and Fournier respectively (Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 2016). Scientist Robert Koch was the first to study Bacillus anthracis in a clinical setting, in 1877 he developed the first microbial etiology. It was in the 1800’s that Anthrax was titled the “woolsorters disease” due to its relation with animal hair or wool from sheep (Center

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    spore-forming rod and is gram-positive. This spore is incredibly resilient and can be life threatening and often times fatal if untreated. Bacillus Anthracis was the first bacterium found to conclude that bacteria is the leading cause in diseases. In 1877 Robert Koch produced a number of anthrax spores and injected them into a host. He quickly found out that by injecting the spores they were activated and quickly caused a disease to take over the

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    Robert Koch was a german physician and lived form 1843 through 1910. He showed to be an avid learner from a very young age. Rock taught himself to read a newspaper by the age of five, and showed interest in biology during his high school age. He attended the University of Gottingen in 1862 carrying out in the study of medicine, and received his M.D. degree in 1866. Koch visited various places such as South Africa and German East Africa along with many more to complete his research on diseases

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    Introduction Anthrax is a disease of herbivores and commonly infects the human through direct contact with the infected animals or ingests contaminated animal products. The causative agent of anthrax is Bacillus anthracis, rod-shaped, gram-positive bacteria and able to form endospore. [1] The spores of bacillus anthracis could affect both humans and animals through different routes and lead to a variety of clinical significant. Cutaneous, inhalational and gastrointestinal anthrax are the most well-known

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    The origin of the discovery of anthrax is debatable among scholars. Robert Koch is accredited with the discovery of anthrax in his 1876 publication of the results of his decade lone experiments. This is the most familiar of the anthrax discovery events to the majority of scientists. The discovery of anthrax as an infectious disease was the first of its kind and supported the germ theory that had been around for centuries. The discovery verified the newfound study of microbiology and sparked the

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    A study on the effect of iron sulphate concentration on the growth of Triticum aestivum, as measured by shoot length Background: For the plants development to carry out general processes, an example being photosynthesis, required for life. There are different roles which can be changed, altered, removed or added that can affect the plant, an example being an increase temperature, CO2. Iron is a micronutrient like iron, used by plants for plant growth, it's role a key factor in enzyme present and

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