History
•1876 Robert Koch cultured Bacillus anthracis
•       Koch & independently Louis Pasteur inoculated       animals by B. anthracis and caused
anthrax in them
•1901 Emil von Behring was awarded the first Nobel Prize      for “his work on serum therapy,
especially its           application against diphtheria”
•          Bordet and Gengou published the first report on the        complement fixation reaction,
used mainly for the      detection of antibodies against viruses
•1956 Albert Sabin announces that his live-virus, oral      polio vaccine is ready for mass testing
•2005 H. Pylori
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Recommended textbook
•Samaranayke, L.P. : Essential Microbiology for Dentistry, 3rd Ed., Churchill Livingstone, 2006,
372 pp.
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•Marsh, P., and Martin, M.V.: Oral Microbiology, 5th Ed., Churchill Livingstone, 2009, 232 pp.
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Further recommended literature
•Paul de Kruif: Microbe Hunters
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•Attention! If you are not going to become a microbiologist as I did
•please read the book with the extreme caution!
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