HLTH101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Helminths, Zoonosis, Vertically Transmitted Infection
10 Oct 2016
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In the previous section, we learned the basic biology of infectious diseases. However, simply knowing the basic biology often does not help us to predict or understand the way in which infectious agents can lead to diseases in human, or how those diseases can become epidemics. In this section, we"ll begin by reviewing the set of criteria that were created by robert koch over 100 years ago to establish the causal relationship between specific microbes and specific diseases. Then we will establish a classification system for infectious diseases. Finally, we will study what are termed the cycles of infectious diseases : the various ways in which microbes co-exist with their environments. We"ll see that there are a number of factors determining the way in which microbes interact with humans. The material in this topic can be further researched via the sources provided in the previous topic.
