Year

Microbe discovered

Discoverer

1880-82

Typhoid

 Carl Joseph Eberth from Germany

1883

Cholera

 Team lead by Robert Koch in Germany

1884

Tetanus

 Arthur Nicholaier from Germany

1886

Pneumonia

 Albert Fraenkel from Germany

1894

Plague

 Shibasaburo Kitasato from Japan and Emile Yersin working at the Pasteur Institute in Indo-China. Both worked independently of the other

1949

Polio

 David Bodian from America identified three different strains of polio virus.