The germ theory of disease is the currently accepted scientific theory for many diseases. It states that microorganisms known as pathogens or "germs" can...

Germ theory denialism is the pseudoscientific belief that germs do not cause infectious disease, and that the germ theory of disease is wrong. It usually...

replaced by the germ theory of disease: specific germs, not miasma, caused specific diseases. However, cultural beliefs about getting rid of odor made the...

the medical model. Especially important was the development of the "germ theory" of disease by European medical researchers such as Louis Pasteur and Robert...

part of a cereal grain Tooth germ, an aggregation of cells that eventually forms a tooth Germ theory of disease, which states that some diseases are caused...

Plague Time: The New Germ Theory of Disease is a non-fiction book by evolutionary biologist Paul W. Ewald. It argues that the role of pathogens has been...

held miasma theory of disease. These findings led medical science to what we now know as the germ theory of disease. The germ theory of disease proposes...

example, miasma theory proposed that all diseases were transmitted by "bad air". The modern germ theory of disease has found that diseases are caused by...

regarded as one of the fathers of germ theory of diseases, which was a minor medical concept at the time. His many experiments showed that diseases could be...

evolution, heliocentric theory, cell theory, theory of plate tectonics, germ theory of disease, etc.). In certain cases, a scientific theory or scientific law...

New Germ Theory of Disease (2002), and is currently director of the program in Evolutionary Medicine at the Biology Department of the University of Louisville...

dyes to identify particular microorganisms for each. Germ theory of disease crystallized the concept of cause—presumably identifiable by scientific investigation...

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the toxins they produce. An infectious disease, also known as a transmissible disease or communicable disease, is an illness resulting from an infection...

author of Victorian Interior Decoration, believes dust corners originated in response to the public's new knowledge of the germ theory of disease. Dust...

work on fermentation later led to his development of the germ theory of disease, which put the concept of spontaneous generation to rest. Although the fermentation...

in medical microbiology and in establishing acceptance of the germ theory of disease (germ theory). In 1882, fueled by national rivalry and a language barrier...

phase theories and proposed his association-induction hypothesis of living cells. Cell adhesion Cytoskeleton Cell biology Cellular differentiation Germ theory...

the discovery of the loop of Henle in the kidney. His essay, "On Miasma and Contagia," was an early argument for the germ theory of disease. He was an important...

microbiologist Louis Pasteur in 19th century experiments used to support germ theory as the cause of fermentation over spontaneous generation from bad air (miasma)...

experiments of Lazzaro Spallanzani and Louis Pasteur disproved spontaneous generation conclusively, allowing germ theory and Robert Koch's discovery of micro-organisms...

further developed the germ theory of disease, offering a theoretical explanation for Semmelweis's findings. He is considered a pioneer of antiseptic procedures...

the germ theory of disease. Following this, Louis Pasteur made the first vaccine against rabies, and also made many discoveries in the field of chemistry...

the rise of the germ theory of disease, though the mechanism of inheritance remained a mystery. In the early 20th century, the rediscovery of Mendel's...

as factual an explanation of the universe as the atomic theory of matter or the germ theory of disease. Our understanding of gravity is still a work in...

history of herbalism is closely tied with the history of medicine from prehistoric times up until the development of the germ theory of disease in the...

embryology. By the mid-1850s the miasma theory of disease was largely superseded by the germ theory of disease, creating extensive interest in microorganisms...

the germ theory of disease. In particular, it led to the nearly universal practice of chlorination of tap water to prevent the spread of diseases like...

that germs "could cause a specific disease" and directly provided proofs for the germ theory of diseases, therefore creating the scientific basis of public...

of disease but it was gradually replaced by the germ theory of disease, leading to effective treatments and even cures for many infectious diseases....