Bacteriology
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Bacteriology is the branch and specialty of biology that studies the morphology, ecology, genetics and biochemistry of bacteria as well as many other aspects related to them. This subdivision of micro
Scanning electron micrograph of Escherichia coli, a common human pathogen and research organism.
An agar plate with bacteria spread by the streak plate method.
Salmonella growing on XLD agar
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, the first person to observe bacteria using a microscope.
Louis Pasteur
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Louis Pasteur was a French chemist, pharmacist, and microbiologist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation, and pasteurization, the last of which was name
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…division and occur either isolated or in cell families," and placed them in the plant kingdom. He also discovered heat-resistant bacterial endospores Louis Pasteur demonstrated in 1859 that microorganisms cause the fermentation process, and that this growth is not due to spontaneous generation (yeasts and molds…
Photograph by Nadar, 1895
The house in which Pasteur was born, Dole
Louis Pasteur, French biologist and chemist, 1878, by A Gerschel
Pasteur experimenting in his laboratory