The purpose of Koch's postulates is to: identify the causative agent of a disease identify the cause of a symptom catalog symptoms of a disease prove the association between risk factor and disease
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Step 1: Koch's postulates are a set of four criteria designed to establish a causal relationship between a microbe and a disease. Show more…
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