Anyone here know microbiology lingo?

[NanceGreggs]

I am working on a transcript; the witness is a microbiologist. He is talking about someone having conducted an experiment which proved a theory that had been suspected to be a fact for years.

He said that when the scientist's experiment proved successful, it fulfilled the 'casus postulate' - that's what it sounds like anyway.

He used this phrase several times, and I got the impression it is an oft-used phrase in this area.

I've Googled several spelling and word possibilities, without any luck.

Is anyone here familiar with this phrase, who can tell me if I have it correct, how it is spelled, etc.?

Thanks in advance ...

[Horse with no Name]

1. Koch's Postulates.

http://www.bookrags.com/research/kochs-postulates-wmi/

[bleever]

2. Now that's what I call service.

:thumbsup:

[NanceGreggs]

4. REALLY!!!

I can't tell you how much time I wasted this weekend trying to figure this out!

[Horse with no Name]

5. Ahhh thanks!

Just one of those useless things you learn as a science major,lol.
Glad it helped!

[NanceGreggs]

7. I'm a court reporter ...

... and the majority of the cases I do are pharmaceutical cases. This is one of three cases I am currently working on involving Campylobacter pylori treatment. I figure a year from now, they can swear ME in as an expert witness on the topic!

Thanks so much again - and I may just come knocking on your virtual door again in future when I get stuck!

[Horse with no Name]

8. Absolutely anytime!

Be glad to help when I can. psst...there is good money in expert witness testimony (wink wink nudge nudge);)

[monktonman]

9. Love your sig line

"dont tase me bro"
cool.

[NanceGreggs]

3. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!

I wish I'd thought to 'ask a DUer' sooner!

And this is definitely it (after looking at the link). The witness was talking about Marshall having proven that Campylobacter pylori causes ulcers - so this definition is in perfect accord with what he was saying.

THANKS AGAIN!!!

:hi:

[Sal Minella]

6. In my transcriber days, I once typed late in the day that the surgeon ran the bowel and the

ascending colon, transverse colon, and semicolon were normal.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

10. And what of the apostrophe?

;-)

[NanceGreggs]

12. LOVE IT!!!

Here's one of my favourites, re phrases that sound perfectly fine at the time, but appear a bit different in black-and-white:

At the end of a long summation, a lawyer ended his argument with a summary of everything he had included in his written submissions. He concluded by saying, "Your Honour, I raised this in my briefs, and now I will place it in your hands."

[Horse with no Name]

13. .....

:spray:

[Duer 157099]

14. LOL -- reminds me of a lecture poster I once saw

Never have figured out if it was intended or if it was just the phonetic spelling by the person who typed the flyer.

Lecture (posted in a medical school hallway) was titled: "The Ideology of Disease" (exept it didn't say "disease" it said a specific disease that I cannot recall now)

(Ideology sounds like etiology, by some pronunciations)

[NanceGreggs]

16. That is priceless!!!!

[Sal Minella]

17. Throw in "iatrogenic," "etymology," and "entomology" and you can garner a lot of blank looks in

a very short time......

[L. Coyote]

11. Is it the Latin casus? As in THE CASUS BELLI the cause of war. n/t

[NanceGreggs]

15. That was my thinking all along ...

... that it was a Latin phrase, and kept Googling variations of "casus". But Koch's Postulates fits the bill perfectly!