In his criticism of scientists who find Koch's postulates obsolete,1 Todd Miller overlooks one important point. Recruiting volunteers to apply Koch's postulates to diseases such as Ebola fever and ...

At the turn of the last century, German physician Robert Koch identified four critical criteria for determining whether or not a particular microbe causes a disease. The ideas behind them were crucial ...

WHILE Koch's postulates have frequently been applied for the demonstration of the pathogenic status of a fungus attacking plant organs, so far as we are aware these postulates have not been applied to ...

Antibodies against several podocyte antigens have evolved as markers of diagnosis, disease activity, and prognosis in membranous nephropathy, but their pathogenic role remains debated. Detailed ...

Dr Robert Koch was a pivotal figure in the golden age of microbiology. It was the German bacteriologist who discovered the bacteria that causes anthrax, septicaemia, tuberculosis and cholera, and his ...