What does it mean to describe an infection as airborne and what are the clinical implications? The concept of the air we breathe as a reservoir for disease-causing agents harkens back to the pre-Pasteur teachings of "miasmic- induced disease" of Sir Edwin Chadwick. Modern germ theory largely rejects the vague concepts of airborne vapors as a cause of disease, and has focused on obvious transmission patterns of infectious agents from ...
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