The phrase "disease germs" is grammatically correct and is commonly used in written English.
It refers to microorganisms that can cause illness or disease. Example: The doctor warned us to wash our hands frequently to prevent the spread of disease germs.
Dr. Gerba seeded household toilets with disease germs and then tested to see if they survived after flushing.
Undulant fever may be caused by the disease germs when introduced into the human body by drinking raw milk of an infected cow.
It is radio-active, germicidal and purifies your blood by destroying disease germs, thereby revivifying, rejuvenating and increasing your Vital Force and circulation".
The farmer, dressed for surgery and sterile up to his elbows, was removing her uterus and its interesting load, in order that the pigs might come into the world without being exposed to disease germs.
Many public health advocates say the use of antibiotics in poultry causes disease germs to become resistant not only to those drugs but also to the closely related drugs used to treat human diseases.
" Sir Almroth Wright, following up on Metchnikoff's most suggestive biological romances, discovered that the white corpuscles or phagocytes do their work only when we butter the disease germs appetizingly for them with a natural sauce which Sir Almroth named opsonin ".
Finally, in the wasteland of "dead London", mankind's salvation is found in the disease germ: "there are no bacteria on Mars".
"The truth is, if we really care about avoiding genetic disease, germ-line editing is not the first, second, third, or even fourth thing to worry about.
Likewise, in a murine model of allergic airways disease, germ-free mice exhibit more severe disease than conventionally housed controls, an effect that could be ameliorated by re-colonization with conventional flora.
Somatic gain-of-function mutation of KIT has been documented in several human malignancies, notably acute myelogenous leukaemia, systemic mast cell disease, germ cell tumours and gastrointestinal stromal tumours (GIST) (Heinrich et al, 2002).
Diarrhoea accounts for 9 per cent of the deaths of children under 5 years old each year and is essentially a faecal-oral disease, where germs are ingested due to contact with infected faeces.
