Articles of category "Infectious diseases information"

In medicine infectious diseases are often called or communicable diseases or the ones caused by a biological agent (virus, bacterium or parasite), as opposed to chemical (intoxication) or physical (burns) causes. One of the important terms in the infectious disease theory is basic reproductive rate - a number of secondary infections in the host organism. This metric is rather useful and important because it helps to determine whether the person is infected or not.

The field of notifable infectious diseases occupies itself with the diagnosis and infection's therapy. There is a wide range of infectious diseases known in modern medical practice, but the article will concentrate on cholera and botulism. These are bacterial infectious diseases caused by different types of bacteria and having various signs and symptoms.