infectious+disease
11infectious disease — Synonyms and related words: abnormality, acute disease, affection, affliction, ailment, allergic disease, allergy, atrophy, bacterial disease, birth defect, blight, cardiovascular disease, chronic disease, circulatory disease, complaint,… …
12infectious disease — contagious illness, communicable sickness, transmittable disease, disease caused by the growth of pathogenic organisms in the body …
13infectious disease — /ɪnˌfɛkʃəs dəˈziz/ (say in.fekshuhs duh zeez) noun 1. a disease caused by germs, as bacteria or filterable viruses. 2. any disease, produced by the action of a microorganism in the body, which may or may not be contagious …
14infectious disease — Any change from a state of health in which part or all of the host s body cannot carry on its normal functions because of the presence of an infectious agent or its products …
15infectious disease — see communicable disease …
16Infectious disease in the 20th century — Many infectious diseases that killed by the millions were greatly reduced in the 20th century, with one notable achievement being the eradication of smallpox, and considerable progress being made toward the eradication of polio (polio eradication …
17infectious disease cycle — (chain of infection) The chain or cycle of events that describes how an infectious organism grows, reproduces, and is disseminated …
18Mathematical modelling of infectious disease — It is possible to mathematically model the progress of most infectious diseases to discover the likely outcome of an epidemic or to help manage them by vaccination. This article uses some basic assumptions and some simple mathematics to find… …
19Non-infectious disease — Non infectious diseases (also called Non communicable diseases [NCDs]) are those diseases that are not caused by a pathogen and cannot be shared from one person to another. In contrast, transmissible diseases caused by pathogenic organisms are… …
20Emerging infectious disease — An emerging infectious disease (EID) is an infectious disease whose incidence has increased in the past 20 years and threatens to increase in the near future. Emerging infections account for at least 12% of all human pathogens[1]. EIDs include… …
