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--- home:pathogenesis:kochs_postulates [05.02.2011] – external edit 127.0.0.1
+++ home:pathogenesis:kochs_postulates [09.04.2011] – [Rethinking Koch] paulalbert
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 ===== Still valid? =====
 [{{ :home:pathogenesis:robertkoch_cropped.jpg|**Robert Koch** created a series of ground rules to determine whether a given organism can cause a given disease.}}]
+<blockquote>When someone talks about imbalance of humors of the miasmic origin of disease, I always detect among listeners the amused tolerance a parent gives to an explanation from his 3-yr-old son. A discourse on Koch’s postulates, on the other hand, is treated with great solemnity. In this light, my premise that there is no more dangerous half-truth among students of disease today than the postulates of Koch may be considered sacrilegious.
+//**Robert P. Hanson**// (({{pubmed>long:3286904}}))</blockquote>
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 Koch's contributions were substantial, but his ideas preceded any understanding of genetics or of horizontal gene transfer and made no provision for organisms that were not genetically distinct.
-The blind adherence to Koch's postulates precludes a more nuanced understanding of disease: it is in fact a group of genetically indistinct organisms, a [[home:pathogenesis:microbiota|metagenomic microbiota]], which causes and drives chronic disease.
+The blind adherence to Koch's postulates precludes a more nuanced understanding of disease: it is in fact a group of genetically indistinct organisms, a [[home:pathogenesis:microbiota|metagenomic microbiota]], which may cause and drive chronic disease.
 {{tag> Pathogenesis Study_Design}}
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