Koch’s contribution to medical biology continues when he further established the fact of “Biological Specificity”. Now what actually Biological Specificity” means? It actually shows that a particular disease can be produced by a particular bacterium only. Other bacteria either do not produce any disease or may produce another form of disease following inoculation. He established this by trying to produce “Anthrax” disease from different types of spore forming bacillus like hay bacillus.
In the same time another interesting thing happened. J. Joubert, a person with profound medical knowledge collaborated with Pasteur and they together also started working with anthrax, a serious problem at that time. They were unaware of Koch’s advancement but the conclusions made by them were similar to that of Koch, further confirming Koch’s theory.
In the same time another interesting thing happened. J. Joubert, a person with profound medical knowledge collaborated with Pasteur and they together also started working with anthrax, a serious problem at that time. They were unaware of Koch’s advancement but the conclusions made by them were similar to that of Koch, further confirming Koch’s theory.
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