Articles of category "Infectious disease"

Infections diagnosis and therapy depend on each other. As a rule, in order to define the bacteria that cause this or that infection, culture is used. But it is necessary to be very careful and to provide the protection from contamination in order to get accurate results. Infectious disease therapy is traditionally empirical. It is executed in order to define the bacteria causing the condition.

Infectious diseases are conditions that are caused by bacteria, fungi, parasites and viruses. It is possible to say that they are diseases caused by biological agent. Some of the infections have been wiped out several years ago. Nevertheless time passes and they come back. As for the treatment with the help of antibiotics, it's getting less effective because of overuse and misuse of the drugs.