1. History of Microbiology
Chapter 1

2. Microbiology
The study of organisms too small to be seen individually with the naked eye during part or all of their life cycle.

3. Types of Microbes

9. Scientific Nomenclature
Bacillus anthracis
Genus
Species

10. Why does it have to be Latin?

11. The History before Microbiology

15. The Dawn of Microbiology

18. The Golden Age of Microbiology

19. “In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind.”
Louis Pasteur, 1854

20. “From my numerous observations, I conclude that these tubercle bacilli occur in all tuberculosis disorders, and that they are distinguishable from all other microorganisms.” 
Robert Koch, 1882

21. “…it appears that all that is requisite is to dress the wound with some material capable of killing these septic germs…”
Joseph Lister, 1867

22. The Age of Antibiotics

23. “One sometimes finds what one is not looking for.” Alexander Fleming

24. “It looks like a miracle.”
Howard Florey, upon testing penicillin in mice

25. “From the moment he is born to the moment he dies, man is subject to the activities of numerous microbes.”
Selman Waksman, 1952

26. The Post Antibiotic Age?

27. “The genie is out of the bottle. it will happen again
“The genie is out of the bottle... it will happen again... the only question is when and where.”
Donald Law, 2002 on the emergence of VRSA

28. “If we generate a lot of this form of TB we will have pushed ourselves back to the pre-antibiotic days of the last century”
Jeremiah Chakaya on the XDR-TB epidemic

29. Countries
Countries

30. Remember that not all Microbes are bad.

31. “There is no Age of Dinosaurs or Age of Man, it has always been and will always be the Age of Bacteria”
Stephen Jay Gould