The German Society for Hygiene and Microbiology (german: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Hygiene und Mikrobiologie, DGHM), formerly known as the Society for Microbiology, is a German

medical society Medicine is the science and practice of caring for a patient, managing the diagnosis, prognosis, prevention, treatment, palliation of their injury or disease, and promoting their health. Medicine encompasses a variety of health care practice ...

, which works to advance research in the fields of

infectious diseases An infection is the invasion of tissues by pathogens, their multiplication, and the reaction of host tissues to the infectious agent and the toxins they produce. An infectious disease, also known as a transmissible disease or communicable dise ...

and

microbiology Microbiology () is the scientific study of microorganisms, those being unicellular (single cell), multicellular (cell colony), or acellular (lacking cells). Microbiology encompasses numerous sub-disciplines including virology, bacteriology, prot ...

. It was founded in 1906.Arnd Schweitzer, ''Deutsche Gesellschaft für Hygiene und Mikrobiologie 1906–2006'', Inst. für Hygiene u. Mikrobiologie, 2006

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