Bacteriology

The scientific study of bacteria, establishing specific bacteria as the causes of specific diseases through methods like Koch's postulates and the development of culture media.

Core metadata

ID: bacteriology_kochs_postulates
Era: Industrial
First known date: 1884 (exact)
Region: Europe, North America, and industrializing regions
Review status: source_checked
Maturity: N/A

Prerequisites

Dependents

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Fields

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Node sources

Koch's Discovery of the Tubercle Bacillus (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1982, official_agency) • Supports: node
Locator: CDC notes that Koch first expounded Koch's postulates in an 1884 paper, making them basic to infectious-disease studies.
Robert Koch (Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2026, textbook) • Supports: node
Locator: Britannica describes Koch's criteria for proving that a specific organism causes a specific disease.

Prerequisite edge evidence

Edge/source evidence summary:

Prerequisite edges: 4
Average edge confidence: 68%
Prerequisite sources: 1
expert_inference: 4

Prerequisite	Type	Confidence	Evidence level	Note	Sources
Germ Theory of Disease (germ_theory)	enabling	68%	expert_inference	Germ Theory of Disease provides a capability that enables this technology without being the only possible path.	No sources recorded.
Microscope (microscope)	enabling	68%	expert_inference	Microscope provides a capability that enables this technology without being the only possible path.	No sources recorded.
Advanced Chemistry (advanced_chemistry)	enabling	68%	expert_inference	Advanced Chemistry provides a capability that enables this technology without being the only possible path.	Chemistry (Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2026, generic_overview) • Supports: edge
Synthetic Dyes (synthetic_dyes)	enabling	68%	expert_inference	Synthetic Dyes provides a capability that enables this technology without being the only possible path.	No sources recorded.

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