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Various types of bacteria, 1889. 5: pneumonia culture; 6: albumen from a rotten egg; 7& 8: tuberculosis as prepared by Koch; 9: sputum from a TB patient; 10: anthrax bacillus; 11:TB bacillus stained blue. From "Die die Methoden der Backtierien-Forschung" by Ferdinand Hueppe. (Wiesbaden, 1889). Hueppe worked with the pioneering Nobel Prize-winning bacteriologist Robert Koch.