Koch Postulate: Why Should we Grow Bacteria?

Understanding infectious diseases has long relied on the Koch postulate, which consists of the pure culture of microorganisms. The advent of molecular methods in clinical microbiology has led the phasing out of culture as a diagnostic tool and metagenomics has become the technique most commonly used to assess the impact of commensal microbes on human health. However, culturing microbes has led to substantial advances, even recently, in infectious diseases involving fastidious microorganisms, as evidenced by the Tropheryma whipplei or Bartonella species.
Source: Archives of Medical Research - Category: Research Authors: Tags: Review Article Source Type: research