Robert Koch developed four criteria to prove that a specific organism causes a disease: a specific microorganism is always associated with a given disease and can be isolated from a diseased animal and cultured, and the same microbe causes disease in healthy animals and can be isolated from newly infected animals.
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What are Koch’s postulates?
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