Robert Koch was a trained ________ who initially developed a lot of his germ theory of disease by studying bacteremia of ________

a. chemist / Bacillus anthracis
b. chemist / Mycobacterium tuberculosis
c. physician / Bacillus anthracis
d. physician / Mycobacterium tuberculosis


Answer: C

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