Infectious disease
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Infectious diseases, also known as contagious diseases or transmissible diseases, and include communicable diseases, comprise clinically evident illness (i.e., characteristic medical signs and/or symptoms of disease) resulting from the infection, presence and growth of pathogenic biological agents in an individual host organism. In certain cases, infectious diseases may be asymptomatic for much or all of their course. Infectious pathogens include some viruses, bacteria, fungi, protozoa, multicellular parasites, and aberrant proteins known as prions. These pathogens are the cause of disease epidemics, in the sense that without the pathogen, no infectious epidemic occurs.
See also
- Bioinformatics Resource Centers for Infectious Diseases
- Blood-borne disease
- Copenhagen Consensus
- Disease diffusion mapping
- Foodborne illness
- Globalization and disease
- Human microbiome project
- Infection control
- Infectious disease dynamics
- Infectious disease eradication
- Infectious disease in the 20th century
- List of causes of death by rate
- List of diseases caused by insects
- List of epidemics
- List of infectious diseases
- Neglected diseases
- Nosocomial infection
- Spatiotemporal Epidemiological Modeler (STEM)
- Threshold host density
- Transmission (medicine)
- Tropical disease
- Waterborne diseases
- List of human diseases associated with infectious pathogens
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