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Antibiotics are normally used in the treatment of infectious diseases.... This paper analyses the classification, transmission, prevention, diagnosis and therapy of infectious diseases, the history, types and effectiveness of vaccines and the functioning of vaccines in human body.... Classification, transmission, prevention, diagnosis and therapy of infectious diseases Infectious diseases can be classified as follows based on the causative organism of infection; “Bacterial – Gram negative and Gram positive Viral – DNA virus, RNA virus, enveloped vs non-enveloped Fungal – Disseminated, Localised Parasitic – Protozoa, Helminths” (Epidemiologic Aspects of infectious Diseases, p....
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Emerging Infectious Diseases Emerging infectious disease is described as any infectious disease that is emerging recently either as a completely new disease or as an old disease that has become prominent because of its drug-resistant nature and increased prevalence.... The virus causing this infectious disease was found to be highly prevalent in China as it was positive in most of the provinces and a majority of population presented with positive results during the screening procedures....
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His work was carried forward by Koch who cultivated anthrax virus from a diseased organism and inserted it into a healthy one, which develops a disease (Burnet and White).... First, that the people who survived the onset of small pox did not contact the disease again and secondly the milkmaids rarely got affected by the disease.... These vaccines may be in many forms A live attenuated form of the virus which is alive but weak and therefore a lower chance of causing a disease Dead strains of the virus Toxoid vaccines which target the toxins produced by the microorganism Viral like particles, generated through genetic engineering that will trigger an immune response without causing a disease....
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In the paper 'infectious disease: Ebola' the author analyzes a disease that is known to be extremely infectious and deadly.... The disease was first discovered in Congo in 1976.... Scientists and doctors have tried so much to come up with various preventive measures for this particular disease, though they come across many challenges.... When there is an outbreak of Ebola, health care sources should be in a position to notice and identify the disease promptly and be able to make urgent tests and take swift action, especially the isolation procedure....
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As a result, when other viruses, bacteria or pathogens gain access to the body, they fail to get resistance from the host body immune system hence cause disease.... The HIV virus falls under retroviruses of the subgroup lentivirus (slow replicating viruses).... A retrovirus is an enveloped virus that....
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The race that the infectious disease originates from is discriminated against and segregated as well as blamed for the spread of the disease or infection just like the Chinese were segregated by the Canadians in Toronto even though the disease spread as a result of interaction and connectedness but leads to inequality.... The conclusion from this article is that globalization has increased the spread of infectious diseases thousands of miles away from the area of origination and this is leading to other unwarranted and unwanted effects such as racism....
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he most important public health intervention for containing the spread of infectious diseases is infection control.... As the paper "Infection Control Measures of Some Infectious Diseases" tells, infection is the entry, development, and reproduction of disease-causing microorganisms in the body of a host resulting in a disease process due to tissue injury and altered cellular metabolism.... Measles is a viral disease caused by morbillivirus in the paramyxovirus family....
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Infectious diseases treatmentIt is evident that treatment of infectious disease revolves around the ability of the bacterial infection to accept antibiotics.... The contact transmission depends from one infectious disease.... ntibiotic resistance has resulted to increased period of illness of an infectious disease, increased mortality rate of patients suffering from such a disease, increased spreading rate of the disease, increased periods of hospitalization of patients affecting the economy with the high cost associated (Lipsitch 2001, Pp 52)....
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