Infectious Diseases Have Been a Scourge to Mankind?

Czech version

Authors: P. Bakoss
Authors‘ workplace: Ústav epidemiológie Lekárskej fakulty Univerzity Komenského, Bratislava
Published in: Epidemiol. Mikrobiol. Imunol. 54, 2005, č. 2, s. 47-53

Overview

A synopsis of basic causes of the extended number of infectious diseases and changes of their clinical and epidemiological features is brought about in the article. The question is of changes of the pathogenic agents, their hosts and environment. Reasons of further evolution of infectious diseases are given.

Key words:
infectious diseases – microbes – hosts – environment.

Labels

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Article was published in

Epidemiology, Microbiology, Immunology

2005 Issue 2