Discovery of Infectious Diseases

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Across
  1. 2. while studying foot-and-mouth disease, these two discovered that the infectious agent was small enough to pass through filters that would screen out all known bacteria
  2. 5. devised a set of steps called Koch’s postulates
  3. 6. diseases that have not occurred in humans before or that occurred only in small numbers in isolated places
  4. 8. discovered the microorganism
  5. 11. a type of protein that can trigger normal proteins in the brain to fold abnormally
  6. 12. discovered that yellow fever in humans is caused by a virus
  7. 13. a process named after ___
  8. 14. living organism or particle that causes an infectious disease
  9. 15. organisms that live at the expense of another organism
  10. 16. made the observation that his patients who had contracted and recovered from cowpox, seemed to be immune not only to further cases of cowpox, but also to smallpox
  11. 17. was the founder of antiseptic medicine
Down
  1. 1. while investigating tobacco mosaic disease on plants, proposed that the infectious agent was a “filterable virus”
  2. 3. body of an organism that harbors another organism
  3. 4. diseases that once were major health problems globally or in a particular country, and then declined dramatically, but are again becoming health problems for a significant number of our population
  4. 7. wrote in a poem that diseases could be transmitted by direct contact with an infected person, contaminated materials or infected air
  5. 9. discovered that a substance produced by the mold Penicillium killed cultures of staphylococcal bacteria
  6. 10. used heat to sterilize culture media, eliminating unwanted microorganisms.