Current Asheville, North Carolina Population, Demographics and stats in 2016, 2015.
Robert Koch, a German physician and scientist, presented his discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium that causes tuberculosis (TB), on the evening of March 24, 1882.
Bacterium. Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria, the cause of TB. Credit: NIAID. Tuberculosis is caused by the infectious agent known as Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb). This rod-shaped bacterium, also called Koch's bacillus, was discovered by Dr. Robert Koch in 1882.his is called latent TB infection. People who have latent TB infection do not get sick and do not spread the bacteria to others. But, some people with latent TB infection eventually do get TB disease. So it is important to get the appropriate treatment and get rid of the bacteria even in latent TB infection.