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How can you avoid microbes?

you cannot avoid microbes because they exist everywhere as bacteria,fungi,virus etc. There are many bacterias in your body.They can be prevented from development by controllin… (MORE)

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What size are microbes?

A Microbe versus Animal Cell The large spheres are tick cells. The purple bars and dots are the bacterium Rickettsia rickettsii, which is the causative agent of Rocky… (MORE)

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What are microbes?

Microbes are microscopic organisms that cannot be seen by the naked eye, only by using a microscope. Other names for microbes are microorganisms and, when related to infection… (MORE)

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Who discovered the microbes?

Microbes (microorganisms) were discovered by Anton van Leeuwenhoek in 1675. He invented and used his own microscope to identify them. Theories of their existence had been offe… (MORE)

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Who studied microbes?

Microbes (microorganisms) were discovered by Anton van Leeuwenhoek in 1675. He invented and used his own microscope to identify them. Theories of their existence had been offe…red throughout civilized history before that by men of science and medicine, such as Roman scientist, Marcus Terentius Varro in the 1st century BC. But, until van Leeuwenhoek designed and used his microscope, no observable proof had been available. Others of scientific and historical note who studied and added to the early understanding and theories of microbes included: * Abu Ali ibn Sina (aka, Avicenna), a Persian scholar who wrote a book in 1020 mentioning them, * Ibn Khatima, from 14th century Spain during the Black Death plague, * Girolamo Fracastoro, 16th Century Venetian physician, * Robert Hooke, 17th Century Englishman known as "The Father of Microscopy", * Lazzaro Spallanzani, 18th Century Italian who pioneered in the field of sterilization, * Louis Pasteur, 19th Century French microbiologist who added significantly to the works of Spallanzani which eventually led to his "Pasteurization" and his invention of the first rabies vaccine, * Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch (aka Robert Koch) of 19th Century Germany proved bacteriologic contagion using anthrax to spread the disease among cattle, isolated Tuberculosis bacteria (which earned him the 1905 Nobel Prize), and Cholera. He is considered a founder of microbiology due to these major works, * Paul Ehrlich, from what is now Poland, created the first antibacterial drug in the 20th century and was awarded the 1908 Nobel Prize for his work in immunology. He also made major advances in the treatments of Diptheria, Syphillis, and Sleeping Sickness, as well as in Gram Staining techniques for bacterial studies. * Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov, Russian (Ukraine) microbiologist who shared the 1908 Nobel Prize in Medicine with Ehrilich with his work on phagocytes (e.g.,"white blood cells", Leucocytes, neutrophils, monocytes, etc.), and the immune system. * Sahachiro Hata, 20th Century Japanese bacteriologist who developed the drug to treat Syphillis along with Ehrilich. Today the fields of study of microbes have branched into highly specialized areas and there are many important scientists and physicians who have contributed in the years from the early 20th century through today. Some of those fields of study are headed by: * Virologists, * Mycologists, * Bacteriologists, * Immunologists, * Microbial Ecologists, * Microbial Evolutionists, * Pathologists and Pathogenic Microbiologists, * Biotechnological Microbiologists, * Environmental Microbiologists, * Food Microbiologists, * Genomologists, * Microbial Geneticists, * Molecular Biologists, * Microbial Physiologists, * Epidemiologists, * Pharmacologists, * Molecular Pathogenologists, * Proteologists, * Anaerobic Microbiologists, * Geomicrobiologists, * Industrial Microbiologists, * Bioremediationists, * Aeromicrobiologists, * Bacterial Geneticists, * Microbial Taxonomists, * Antimicrobiologists (MORE)

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What is microbes and what is thermophilic and mesophilic microbes?

Microbes are organisms that are composed of only one solitary cell or a cell which lives in a colony with other cells. Thermophilic microbes are organisms that prefer to liv… (MORE)

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What is a microbe?

A microbe is an organism that can be seen using a microscope. They include fungi, bacteria, viruses, archea and protists. All except fungi consist of a single cell, althou… (MORE)

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Which microbes are in meat?

Answer After the microbes were detected in water samples, the state conducted two weeks of intensive monitoring of shellfish meats but found no toxins, Pingree s… (MORE)

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How do you kill microbes?

Microbes can be killed using anti-microbial chemicals like bleach or Lysol. Heat is also an effective method of killing most microscopic organisms.

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Which microbes are useful?

Microbes are useful because not only are they the cause of diseases; then can also be used for the following: they help foods like bread rise because of the yeast which is a m… (MORE)

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