MICROBIOLOGY- IMPORTANT BASIC INTRODUCTION KEY POINTS

 TOPIC: BRIEF INTRODUCTION OF MICROBIOLOGY

📌 KEY POINTS:

🔹Microbiology - Study of living organisms of microscopic size.

🔹Ruska (1934) - developed the electron microscope, enabling the visualisation of the microbes.The development of the tissue culture technique has permitted the cultivation of viruses.

🔹Sir Alexander Fleming (1881-1955) - discovered that the fungus Penicillium produces a substance, penicillin, that destroys Staphylococci,this discovery led to the formulation of other antimicrobials.

🔹Antony van Leeuwenhoek - First person to describe microorganisms.