“koch's”

The following 3 entries include the term koch's.

Koch's bacillus

noun

: a bacillus of the genus Mycobacterium (M. tuberculosis) that causes human tuberculosis

Koch's phenomenon

noun

: the response of a tuberculous animal to reinfection with tubercle bacilli marked by necrotic lesions that develop rapidly and heal quickly and caused by hypersensitivity to products of the tubercle bacillus

Koch's postulates

noun plural

: a statement of the steps required to establish a microorganism as the cause of a disease: (1) it must be found in all cases of the disease; (2) it must be isolated from the host and grown in pure culture; (3) it must reproduce the original disease when introduced into a susceptible host; (4) it must be found present in the experimental host so infected


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