title: Introduction to special issue on rethinking the reception of the germ theory of disease: comparative perspectives.
authors.forename: N J
authors.initials: NJ
authors.lastname: Tomes
authors.forename: J H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Warner
mesh_terms: D049672:History, 19th Century; D006801:Humans; D007239:Infections / Q000266:history* / Q000382:microbiology