Some Notable Scientists of the "Golden Age of Microbiology" and the Agents of Human Disease They Discovered

Anthrax (Bacillus anthracis (bacterium))

Robert Koch (1876)

Albert Neisser 1879

Gonorrhea (Neisseria gonorrheae (bacterium)

Malaria ( Plasmodium species (protozoa))

Charles Lavera 1880

Typhoid fever (Salmonella typhi (bacterium)

Carl Eberth 1880

Tuberculosis (Mycobacterium tuberculosis (bacterium)

Robert Koch 1882

Diphtheria (Corynebacterium diphtheriae (bacterium)

Edwin Klebs 1883

Traveler's diarrhea (Escherichia coll (bacterium)

Bladder infection

Theodore Escherich 1884

Pneumonia ( Streptococcus pneumoniae (bacterium)

Albert Frankel 1884

Cholera (Yersinia pestis (bacterium)

Robert Koch 1884

Undulant fever (brucellosis): Brucella melitensis (bacterium)

David Bruce 1887

Meningococcal meningitis (Neisseria meningitidis (bacterium)

Anton Weichselbaum 1887

Salmonellosis (form of food poisoning)

A. A. Gartner 1888

Tetanus

Shibasaburo Kitasato 1889

Tobacco mosaic disease (Tobamovirus tobacco

mosaic virus)

Dmitri wanowski and 1892

Martinus Beijerinck 1898

Gas gangrene ( Clostridium perfringens bacterium)

William Welsh and George Nutal 1892

Bubonic plague(Yersinia pestis (bacterium)

Alexandre Yersin and Shibasaburo Kitasato 1894

Shigellosis (a type of severe diarrhea)

Kiyoshi Shiga 1898

yellow fever( flavivirus yellow fever virus)

Walter Reed 1900

African sleeping sickness ( Trypanosoma bruce gambiense (protozoan)

Robert Forde and Joseph Dutton 1902