Infectious disease | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-05-06

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infection


00:02:11 1 Classification
00:02:20 1.1 Subclinical versus clinical (latent versus apparent)
00:04:21 1.2 Primary versus opportunistic
00:07:45 1.2.1 Other types of infection
00:08:37 1.3 Infectious or not
00:10:07 1.4 Contagiousness
00:11:29 1.5 By anatomic location
00:12:13 2 Signs and symptoms
00:13:10 2.1 Bacterial or viral
00:13:36 3 Pathophysiology
00:14:13 3.1 Colonization
00:18:13 3.2 Disease
00:19:55 3.3 Transmission
00:22:23 4 Diagnosis
00:24:11 4.1 Symptomatic diagnostics
00:25:00 4.2 Microbial culture
00:27:55 4.3 Microscopy
00:30:25 4.4 Biochemical tests
00:33:58 4.5 PCR-based diagnostics
00:35:43 4.6 Metagenomic sequencing
00:37:28 4.7 Indication of tests
00:39:24 5 Prevention
00:43:25 5.1 Immunity
00:45:35 5.1.1 Host genetic factors
00:47:06 6 Treatments
00:48:43 7 Epidemiology
00:49:53 7.1 Historic pandemics
00:51:57 7.2 Emerging diseases
00:54:33 8 History
00:57:31 8.1 Medical specialists
00:58:49 9 Society and culture
01:00:36 10 Fossil record
01:01:49 11 Outer space
01:02:44 12 See also
01:02:53 13 Notes and references
01:03:03 14 External links



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SUMMARY
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Infection is the invasion of an organism's body tissues by disease-causing agents, their multiplication, and the reaction of host tissues to the infectious agents and the toxins they produce. Infectious disease, also known as transmissible disease or communicable disease, is illness resulting from an infection.
Infections are caused by infectious agents (pathogens) including: 

Viruses and related agents such as viroids and prions
Bacteria
Fungi, further subclassified into:
Ascomycota, including yeasts such as Candida, filamentous fungi such as Aspergillus, Pneumocystis species, and dermatophytes, a group of organisms causing infection of skin and other superficial structures in humans.
Basidiomycota, including the human-pathogenic genus Cryptococcus
Parasites, which are usually divided into
unicelllular organisms (e.g. malaria, Toxoplasma, Babesia)
macroparasites (worms or helminths) including nematodes such as parasitic roundworms and pinworms,  tapeworms (cestodes), and flukes (trematodes, such as schistosomiasis)
Arthropods such as ticks, mites, fleas, and lice, can also cause human disease, which conceptually are similar to infections, but invasion of a human or animal body by these macroparasites is usually termed infestation. ( Diseases caused by helminths, which are also macroparasites, are sometimes termed infestations as well, but are sometimes called infections.)Hosts can fight infections using their immune system. Mammalian hosts react to infections with an innate response, often involving inflammation, followed by an adaptive response.Specific medications used to treat infections include antibiotics, antivirals, antifungals, antiprotozoals, and antihelminthics. Infectious diseases resulted in 9.2 million deaths in 2013 (about 17% of all deaths). The branch of medicine that focuses on infections is referred to as infectious disease.