# germ theory of disease

> prevailing theory about the cause of infectious diseases

**Wikidata**: [Q1425837](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1425837)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germ_theory_of_disease)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/germ-theory-of-disease


## References

1. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013
2. UMLS 2023
3. [OpenAlex](https://docs.openalex.org/download-snapshot/snapshot-data-format)