Koch
[kɔk]
Definition
(noun.) German bacteriologist who isolated the anthrax bacillus and the tubercle bacillus and the cholera bacillus (1843-1910).
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Examples
- Dr. Koch, who had srved in the Franco-Prussian War, succeeded in 1876 in obtaining pure cultures of this bacillus and in defining its relation to the dis ease. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Bacillus of Cholera identified by Koch, Bacillus of Diphtheria by Loeffler, and Bacillus of Lockjaw by Nicolaier. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Koch, whose success in detecting the microbes which cause consumption and cholera has made him famous the world over. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Eberth and Koch discover Bacillus of Typhoid Fever, and Sternberg the Bacillus of Pneumonia. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
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