As 2005 marks the 100th anniversary of Robert Koch receiving the Nobel Prize for his work on tuberculosis, what could microbiologists today learn from him? The details of Koch's research career ...

An outbreak of tuberculosis, or TB – a lung disease that is often accompanied by a hacking cough – began in January 2024 in ...

In the late 1870s the German, Robert Koch began to apply Pasteur’s ideas to human diseases. In doing so, he created the science of bacteriology. He identified the bacteria which caused anthrax ...

Enter: Louis Pasteur of France and Robert Koch of Germany. *Mais oui! It was the Frenchman who landed the first punch. Pasteur was the first to challenge old barmy beliefs, hypothesising that ...