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Infectious diseases

Infectious diseases (morbi infectiosi; synonym: infectious diseases – outdate)

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  1. Infectious diseases – the diseases caused by microorganisms or their toxins and which are transmitted from the infected person or an animal to healthy; are such extent of development of infectious process which differs in disturbances of life activity of a macroorganism in a manifest or subclinical form;
  2. Infectious diseases – the department of clinical medicine investigating a pathogeny, an etiology and the course of infectious diseases 1, and also which is engaged in development of methods of their prevention, treatment and diagnosis.
 
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The most rare disease – a disease the Kura. Only representatives of the tribe Faure in New Guinea are ill it. The patient dies of laughter. It is considered that eating of a human brain is an origin of a disease.