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Oct 15, 2007 · The career of Theodor Escherich (1857–1911) qualifies him as the first pediatric infectious diseases physician. His landmark bacteriologic studies identified the common colon bacillus (now known as Escherichia coli), and he was very committed to pediatrics, serving as chairman of several prominent departments of pediatrics, including the ...
- Stanford T. Shulman, Herbert C. Friedmann, Ronald H. Sims
- 2007
Theodor Escherich (German pronunciation: [ˈteːodoːɐ̯ ˈʔɛʃəʁɪç]; 29 November 1857 – 15 February 1911) was a German-Austrian pediatrician and a professor at universities in Graz and Vienna. He discovered and described the bacterium Escherichia coli.
In 1885, the pioneering Bavarian paediatrician Theodor Escherich was battling against neonatal dysentery when he first isolated Bacterium coli commune from the stool of infants in the laboratory of Otto von Bollinger in Munich.
- Guillaume Méric, Matthew D Hitchings, Ben Pascoe, Samuel K Sheppard, Samuel K Sheppard
- 2016
Abstract. This year is the 150th anniversary of the birth of Theodor Escherich, the German physician who discovered Escherichia coli. Jörg Hacker and Gabriele Blum-Oehler reflect on the life...
- Jörg Hacker, Gabriele Blum-Oehler
- 2007
Theodor Escherich. 1857-1911. German bacteriologist who first isolated the E. coli bacteria. Escherich first discovered the bacteria Bacterium coli (later renamed Escherichia coli in his honor) in the intestinal tract of humans and animals.
history of human microbiome research. In human microbiome: Discovery of the human microbiome. …the mid-1880s, when Austrian pediatrician Theodor Escherich observed a type of bacteria (later named Escherichia coli) in the intestinal flora of healthy children and children affected by diarrheal disease.
Abstract. The purpose of this essay is threefold: to give an outline of the life and the various achievements of Theodor Escherich, to provide a background to his discovery of what he called Bacterium coli commune (now Escherichia coli), and to indicate the enormous impact of studies with this organism, long before it became the cornerstone of ...
