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• n  the branch of medical science that studies bacteria in relation to disease

• After graduation (1875) he went to Germany, studied bacteriology, biochemistry, pathology.
• A newly devised food for the artificial nourishment of germs, referred to at Northwestern University last week, promises to enlarge the study of bacteriology.
• For the subsequent operation turned his busy, acquisitive, ambitious brain to medicine, then to bacteriology.

News & Articles

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• Researchers Unearth Bioenergy Potential in Leaf-Cutter Ant Communities
  As spring warms up Wisconsin, humans aren't the only ones tending their gardens. At the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Bacteriology, colonies of leaf-cutter ants cultivate thriving communities of fungi and bacteria using freshly cut plant material.
  June 14, 2013 - Newswise