Famous Tuberculosis Quotes

A major reason is that the campaign began with no knowledge of the fact that there are multiple strains of M. tuberculosis and that the efficacy of BCG is strain-specific, varying from Aronson’s famous 80 percent to nil.

Robert Koch, a pioneering figure of the modern germ theory of disease (Chapter 12). In 1882 he identified Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and he established rigorous proof—in compliance with his own famous postulates—of its causative role in the disease.