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(medicine) the theory that all contagious diseases are caused by microorganisms
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| germ theory |
a theory in medicine that infectious diseases result from the action of microorganisms.
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| germ theory |
The theory that germs cause disease, often by infection through the air
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| germ theory |
postulates proximate, singular microbial causes of disease. In the last two decades of the 19th century the thought and work of Henle, 20 Koch 9 and others displaced the Miasma theory (see Miasma). For some 75 years thereafter, germ theory dominated an Anglophone laboratory-based epidemiology and focused on infectious disease control. 16 24
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