Microbiology,born to study life forms invisible to the naked eye,owes its origin to Antonie van Leeuwenhoek,who in the 1670s first observed bacteria and other microbes using microscopes of his design.From its inceptio...Microbiology,born to study life forms invisible to the naked eye,owes its origin to Antonie van Leeuwenhoek,who in the 1670s first observed bacteria and other microbes using microscopes of his design.From its inception,microbiology has been an interdisciplinary science,deeply reliant on advances in instrumentation and methodology.A pivotal milestone was reached in the late 19th century when Robert Koch established the germtheory of disease by conclusively linking specific microbes to specific illnesses.展开更多
基金supported by theBeijing Natural Science Founda-tion(grant number IS23089 to Y.V.F.)the National Natural Science Foundation ofChina(grant number 52091541 to Y.V.F.).
文摘Microbiology,born to study life forms invisible to the naked eye,owes its origin to Antonie van Leeuwenhoek,who in the 1670s first observed bacteria and other microbes using microscopes of his design.From its inception,microbiology has been an interdisciplinary science,deeply reliant on advances in instrumentation and methodology.A pivotal milestone was reached in the late 19th century when Robert Koch established the germtheory of disease by conclusively linking specific microbes to specific illnesses.
