microbiology

five kingdom taxonomy

three domains based on rRNA sequences

germ theory of Disease

sequenced experimental steps for directly relating a specific microbe to a specific disease

Discovered the presence of viruses

Reduced childbed fever

Introduced aseptic techniques in surgery (listerine)

Began the field of Immunology (smallbox)

Began the science of Chemotherapy (first to use arsenic)

Discovered the first antibiotic (penicillin)

obiligate intracellular parasites, cause sexually transmitted disease, gram negative coccoid bacteria

is an outcome of a chlamydia infection in females

is the large actively dividing non-infectious form

elementary body is the infectious form and reticulate body is the large activily dividing non infectious form.

called walking pneumonia in young adults

lack cell walls, pleomorphic, colonize membranes of the respiratory tract.