Bacteriology

The bacteriology ( from Ancient Greek βακτἠριον baktērion, sticks' and λόγος logos, customer ' teaching ',- logy ) is the science whose object is the construction, the lifestyle, the system and identification of bacteria. It is a branch of microbiology. Among many other things, it also deals with pathogenic bacteria and provides important results for the medicine and thus to disease control.

Bacteria are independent creatures that have a cellular structure and gain the necessary energy for life by their own metabolism.

History

Antoni van Leeuwenhoek described already in 1677 he observed microscopic bacteria. Important subsequent discoveries come from Lazzaro Spallanzani, Louis Pasteur, Ferdinand Cohn, Martinus Willem Beijerinck, Sergei Winogradsky and Albert J. Kluyver. Pioneers of medical bacteriology were Joseph Lister, Louis Pasteur, Paul Ehrlich and Robert Koch, they created the basis for a successful disease control with antibiotics and vaccines.

Discoveries of bacteria ( first descriptions )