Microbiology Quiz

Who is best known for inventing the technique to treat milk and stop bacterial contamination?

• Antoine van Leeuwenhook

• Louis Pasteur

• Joseph Lister

• Edward Jenner

Which scientist is credited with the concept of 'Biogenesis'?

• Robert Koch

• Louis Pasteur

• Rudolph Vichroy

• Giralamo Fracastoro

Who is considered the founding father of epidemiology?

• Louis Pasteur

• Edward Jenner

• Joseph Lister

• John Snow

Which scientist was the first to identify microorganisms and called them 'little animals'?

• Robert Hooke

• Louis Pasteur

• Antoine van Leeuwenhook

• Giralamo Fracastoro

Who opposed the concept of spontaneous generation and demonstrated that 'maggots did not spontaneously arrive from meat'?

• Francesco Redi

• Robert Koch

• Rudolph Vichroy

• Lazaro Spallanzi

Which scientist created the first vaccine for cow pox and small pox?

• Edward Jenner

• Joseph Lister

• Louis Pasteur

• Antoine van Leeuwenhook

Who is known for the discovery of the germ theory of diseases?

• Robert Koch

• Edward Jenner

• Joseph Lister

• Louis Pasteur

Who is credited with the development of the first successful inactivated polio vaccine?

• Albert Sabin

• Jonas Salk

• Edward Jenner

• Louis Pasteur

Who is known for the discovery of penicillin?

• Alexander Fleming

• Joseph Lister

• Robert Koch

• Louis Pasteur