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Attribution
About This Book
1.1-What is a disease?
1.2-Classifications of Disease
1.3-Periods of Disease
1.4-Acute and Chronic Diseases
2.1-How Pathogens Cause Disease
Nina Parker, Mark Schneegurt, Anh-Hue Thi Tu, Philip Lister, Brian M. Forster
2.2-Virulence Factors of Bacterial and Viral Pathogens
2.3-VIRULENCE FACTORS OF EUKARYOTIC PATHOGENS
3.1-Innate Immune System
3.2-Adaptive Immune System
3.3-Antibodies
3.4-Disruptions in the immune system
4.1-Immunization Principles
4.2-Immune System Research Frontiers
5.1-How Microbes Grow
5.5-Microbial Growth Control
5.3-Testing Effectiveness of Antiseptics and Disinfectants
5.4-Mechanisms of Antibacterial Drugs
5.5-Mechanisms of Other Antimicrobial Drugs
5.6-Drug Resistance
5.7-Current Strategies for Antimicrobial Discovery
6.1-History of Pandemics Leading Up To COVID-19
6.2-Virology of COVID-19: Transmission, Variants and Treatments
6.3-Social Determinants Of Health and COVID-19
7.1-Modes of Disease Transmission
7.2-Bacterial Diseases
7.3-Viral Diseases
7.4-Fungal and Algal Diseases
7.5-Protozoan and Helminth Diseases
8.1-Nutrition and Disease
8.2-Nutrition, Health and Disease
8.3-Nutrition and Chronic Diseases
8.4-Undernutrition, Overnutrition, Malnutrition
9.1-Respiratory Diseases
9.2 Cardiovascular Diseases
10.1-Cancer as a disease
10.2-Cell Biology of Cancer
10.3-Cancer and Cell Cycle
10.4-Cancer and Gene Regulation
10.5- Mutations
11.1-Assisted Reproductive Technology
11.2-Aging and Elderly
12.1-Sleep
12.2-Stress
12.3-Stress and Illness
12.4-Substance Use and Abuse
Appendices
Appendix A-Biological Macromolecules
Appendix B-What is a cell?
Appendix C-Cellular Transport
Derivative Notes
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