Infectious diseases are disorders caused by pathogenic microorganisms, including viruses, bacteria, fungi, protozoa, and parasites, that invade and multiply within a host and may be transmitted through air, water, vectors, or direct contact. Their study spans the biology of pathogens, the dynamics of transmission, h…
Infectious diseases are disorders caused by pathogenic microorganisms, including viruses, bacteria, fungi, protozoa, and parasites, that invade and multiply within a host and may be transmitted through air, water, vectors, or direct contact. Their study spans the biology of pathogens, the dynamics of transmission, host immune responses, and the prevention and control of outbreaks. The work assembled here reflects this breadth with a strong emphasis on epidemic infections. Several studies address COVID-19, including narrative reviews of the novel coronavirus, mathematical modelling and epidemic prediction to inform prevention and control, and biomedical and behavioural analyses of masking and social distancing. The emergence and re-emergence of infectious diseases is examined in relation to ecological and geopolitical factors and gain-of-function research. Parasitic and bacterial infection features in work on malaria and typhoid co-infection, while immunological approaches appear in the use of immunoassays and immunogenomic methods for monitoring infection and cancer. Public-health and policy dimensions are represented through reimbursement policy for major infectious disease and the impact of climate change on infection risk. Together these contributions present infectious diseases as a field uniting microbiology, immunology, epidemiology, and mathematical modelling, concerned both with the mechanisms by which pathogens cause disease and with the surveillance, prevention, and control measures needed to limit their spread across populations.
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