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From miasmas to germs: a historical approach to theories of infectious disease transmission.

Marianna Karamanou, George Panayiotakopoulos, Gregory Tsoucalas, Antonis A Kousoulis, George Androutsos

History of Medicine Department, Medical School, University of Athens, Athens, Greece.

Le infezioni in medicina : rivista periodica di eziologia, epidemiologia, diagnostica, clinica e terapia delle patologie infettive 2012 Mar

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From miasma to germ theory we trace the evolution of conceptions in infectious disease transmission. Starting from the unproved theories of contagiousness we move on to miasma theory, contagion theory and spontaneous generation theory up to the revolutionary germ theory of disease transmission.

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Marianna Karamanou, George Panayiotakopoulos, Gregory Tsoucalas, Antonis A Kousoulis, George Androutsos. From miasmas to germs: a historical approach to theories of infectious disease transmission. Le infezioni in medicina : rivista periodica di eziologia, epidemiologia, diagnostica, clinica e terapia delle patologie infettive. 2012 Mar;20(1):58-62

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