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Add new Web site: Biology LibreTexts - The Germ Theory of Disease. Sep 18, 2026
Article thoroughly revised and updated. Apr 17, 2026
Add new Web site: PNAS - The germ theory revisited: A noncentric view on infection outcome. Mar 11, 2026
Add new Web site: ABC listen - The Pop Test - Germ Theory. Feb 03, 2026
Add new Web site: Liberty University - Scholars Crossing - Louis Pasteur’s Views on Creation, Evolution, and the Genesis of Germs (PDF). Aug 14, 2025
Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - From germ theory to germ therapy. Feb 28, 2025
Added an image of the infectious bacterium Yersinia pestis. Feb 27, 2025
Add new Web site: Yale University - Open Yale Courses - The Germ Theory of Disease. Jan 03, 2025
Add new Web site: Liberty University - Scholars Crossing - Creation and the Germ Theory: How a Biblical Worldview Encouraged the Concept that Germs Make Us Sick. Nov 05, 2024
Add new Web site: Nature - Nature Reviews Microbiology - The germ-organ theory of non-communicable diseases. Aug 16, 2024
Add new Web site: National Museum of Civil War Medicine - Germ Theory from Antiquity to the Antebellum Period. May 22, 2024
Add new Web site: The Ohio State University Pressbooks - Insects & Human Affairs: Pests, Plagues, Pollinators and Poisons - Insects and the Germ Theory of Disease. Dec 15, 2023
Add new Web site: PNAS - The germ theory revisited: A noncentric view on infection outcome. Oct 31, 2023
Add new Web site: World History Encyclopedia - Germ Theory. Aug 22, 2023
Links and video added. Apr 21, 2023
Add new Web site: Harvard Library - The Contagion: Historical Views of Diseases and Epidemics - Germ Theory. Mar 23, 2023
Add new Web site: Biology LibreTexts - The Germ Theory of Disease. Jan 13, 2023
Add new Web site: Biology LibreTexts Library - The Germ Theory of Disease. May 09, 2021
Corrected display issue. Feb 11, 2020
Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - A Theory of Germs. Jan 14, 2020
Add new Web site: Easy Science for Kids - Germ Theory of Disease Video for Kids. Feb 27, 2017
New illustration added. Jan 21, 2009
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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