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The history of microbiology, the scientific study of microorganisms, had its origins in the second half of the seventeenth century, when Anton van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723), a tradesman in Delft, Holland, learned to grind lenses in order to make microscopes that would allow him to magnify and observe a wide range of materials and objects.
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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, New York, United States, New England Journal of Medicine, Mayo Clinic Proceedings, American Journal, South America, Weekly Report, Journal of the American Medical Association, Nature Medicine, Transmission Humans, Far East, Treatment Praziquantel, Clinical Microbiology Reviews, Test Principle, New Guinea, Southeast Asia, Cambridge University Press, Diagnosis Eggs, World Health Organization, Academic Press, Dangerous Pathogens, European Union, Human Fertility, Journal of Reproductive Immunology
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