Infection is the invasion of a host organism's bodily tissues by disease-causing organisms, their multiplication, and the reaction of host tissues to these organisms and the toxins they produce.[1] Infectious diseases, also known as transmissible diseases orcommunicable diseases, comprise clinically evident illness (i.e., characteristic medical signs and/or symptoms of disease) resulting from the infection, presence and growth of pathogenic biological agents in an individual host organism.

Hepatitis C drugs pricey, but cure is priceless

It was almost as if someone decided April would be hepatitis C month. In case you hadn’t notice, April saw publication of six separate articles in the New England Journal of Medicine on what were...

Field of Interest: Infectious diseases
Type: News Item

Tuberculosis rate drops, disparity continues

Despite the overall decline in tuberculosis, there continues to be a large disparity in incidence between U.S.-born and foreign-born U.S. residents, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...

Field of Interest: Infectious diseases
Type: News Item

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