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Which disease did Robert Koch work on?

Correct answer B. Tuberculosis

Explanation

In 1882 Robert Koch identified Mycobacterium tuberculosis as the cause of tuberculosis, work that later earned him the 1905 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

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