Osorio Carlos G
Programa de Microbiología y Micología, Instituto de Ciencias Biomédicas, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
Rev Med Chil. 2010 Jul;138(7):913-9. doi: 10.4067/s0034-98872010000700019.
The origin of bacteriology in Chile is intimately bound to the life of the physicians Vicente Izquierdo Sanfuentes and Francisco Puelma Tupper. Both were awarded in 1874 with a government fellowship to study in the most prestigious universities of Europe. Dr. Izquierdo studied Histology and Dr. Puelma Tupper Pathology. After their return to Chile in 1879, both founded in the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Chile, the first experimental laboratories in their respective disciplines. It was in those laboratories that the new science of microbiology started to be developed slowly. This discipline was just consolidating itself in Europe, led by the famous scientists Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch.
智利细菌学的起源与医师比森特·伊兹基尔多·桑富恩特斯和弗朗西斯科·普尔马·塔珀的生平紧密相连。1874年，两人均获得政府奖学金，前往欧洲最负盛名的大学学习。伊兹基尔多博士学习组织学，普尔马·塔珀博士学习病理学。1879年回到智利后，两人在智利大学医学院各自创立了本学科的首个实验实验室。正是在这些实验室里，微生物学这门新科学开始慢慢发展起来。当时，在著名科学家路易·巴斯德和罗伯特·科赫的引领下，这门学科在欧洲刚刚站稳脚跟。
