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T G Villa1, L Feijoo-Siota2, A Sánchez-Pérez3
1Department of Microbiology. Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain. tomas.gonzalez@usc.es.
Abstract:
The advancement of human knowledge has historically followed the pattern of one-step growth (the same pattern followed by microorganisms in laboratory culture conditions). In this way, each new important discovery opened the door to multiple secondary breakthroughs, eventually reaching a "plateau" when new findings emerged. Microbiology research has usually followed this pattern, but often the conclusions attained from experimentation/observation were either equivocal or altogether false, causing important delays in the advancement of this science. This mini-review deals with some of these documented scientific errors, but the aim is not to include every mistake, but to select those that are paramount to the advance of Microbiology.
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