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.