Koch's postulates was a group of four scientific criteria which were designed to establish a causal relationship between a microbe and a disease.
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While studying an artificial disease that had infected a landing party on Miri's homeworld in the year 2266, Doctor Leonard McCoy determined that it didn't satisfy any of Koch's postulates. (TOS - Star Trek 1 novelization: Miri)
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- Koch's postulates article at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.