Germ

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Germ may refer to:

• Microorganism, especially a pathogen; see Germ theory of disease
• Germ cell, an ovum or sperm, or one of its progenitors
• The Germ (periodical), a periodical established by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood to disseminate their ideas
• Germ (mathematics), an object in a topological space that captures local properties
• Cereal germ, the reproductive part of a cereal grain
• Germ, Hautes-Pyrénées, a commune of the Hautes-Pyrénées département in southwestern France

Germs may refer to:

• Georgetown Emergency Response Medical Service or GERMS, a student-run EMS organization at Georgetown University
• The Germs, an American punk rock band (1976-1980, 2005—present)
• The Germs (comics), a comic strip in the magazine The Beano
• Germs (Invader Zim), an episode of Invader Zim
• "Germs" (song), a song by "Weird Al" Yankovic

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