Prescott's Microbiology 8th Edition by Joanne Willey, Linda Sherwood, Christopher J. Woolverton, Lansing Prescott, John Harley, Donald Klein

Exercise 1

How did Jenner, Pasteur, von Behring, Kitasato, and Metchnikoff contribute to the development of immunology? How was the ability to culture microbes important to their studies?

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Jenner is credited for creating the smallpox vaccine, one of the world’s first vaccinations. Jenner noticed that milk maids had cowpox lesions on their hands from milking cows. These milk maids also tended to be immune to smallpox. Jenner inoculated a young boy with pus from a milk maid’s lesion. The boy had a mild fever but did not have a severe infection. Then Jenner inoculated the boy with material from a small pox lesion. The boy did not get small pox.