Identifying the causative agent of an infectious disease is a notoriously tricky, but vitally important, business. When faced with new potential pathogens, the principles fostered by Koch's postulates ...

In 1988, I was asked to summarize a symposium on the then relatively new field of microbial pathogenesis and to comment on the contributions of molecular biology and genetics to the study of bacterial ...

In his criticism of scientists who find Koch's postulates obsolete,1 Todd Miller overlooks one important point. Recruiting volunteers to apply Koch's postulates to diseases such as Ebola fever and ...