The author describes the diseases and their causative agents that are major factors in the health of populations the world over. One of the main features of the book is its broad coverage of 25 different emerging infectious diseases, most of which are directly important to those practicing ...
Similarity and Difference in Characteristics of Two Diseases, SFTS and CCHF, and Their Causative AgentsSevere fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS) and Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) are caused by two distinct bunyaviruses and show some common characteristics. In this chapter, the ...
Betweentheacuteandchronicis thesubacute. Theclassificationofdisease 3.Diseasescanalsobeclassified bytheircausativeagents---an infectiousdiseaseandan noninfectiousdisease. Theclassificationofdisease 3.Aninfectionsdisease istheonethatcan bepassedbetween personssuchas bymeansof airbornedroplets fromacoughor sneeze....
Thrombosis of portal and hepatic veins is one of the most severe complications and most important causes of death of patients with chronic myeloproliferative diseases. Based on results of the past studies, myeloproliferative diseases were the causes of hepatic veins thrombosis in 30% and portal vein...
trachomatis, may be causative in cases of postgonococcal urethritis, since it is resistant to common gonococcal antibiotic regimens.17 U. urealyticum and M. hominis have been associated with nongonococcal PID, based on direct culture of the organisms from the peritoneum of infected...
agents or cellular damage. The active inflammasome then triggers caspase-1 activation, followed by the secretion of pro-inflammatory cytokines and pyroptotic cell death. Aberrant inflammasome activation and activity contribute to the development of diabetes, cancer, and several cardiovascular and ...
2. An acute disease has a quick onset and runs a short course. A chronic disease has a slow onset and runs a sometimes years-long course. Between the acute and chronic is the subacute. The classification of disease 3. Diseases can also be classified by their causative agents --- an ...
Control strategies are being implemented at scale and have already achieved a major reduction in the burden of disease, and the causative agent has even been eliminated in some previously endemic areas. Those successes have not come easily, and much remains to be done to ensure complete and ...
agents exist, they are generally less effective than other medications and are not routinely used. Medication that is taken by mouth, or in severe cases intravenously, is more effective. It is important to remember that there is still no cure for genital herpes and that these treatments only ...