title: Shifting paradigms: the hard road to acceptance of the contagion principle in Australia.
authors.affiliation: Highbury Veterinary Clinic, Burwood, Victoria.
authors.forename: P J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: MacWhirter
mesh_terms: D000820:Animal Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000266:history* / Q000635:transmission; D000818:Animals; D015984:Causality; D003141:Communicable Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000266:history* / Q000635:transmission; D004196:Disease Outbreaks / Q000266:history; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D014730:Veterinary Medicine / Q000266:history; D014739:Victoria