Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Natural History and
Pathogen strategy
- Influenza
- Influenza A and B
are both caused
by a Virus
- Symptoms include
chills, fever, malaise,
headache
- 3-5 million people get the
flu virus and the deaths are
250,000-350,000 and
these deaths are either
extremely young or elderly
- You are highly infectious before
you are aware that you have it
- Acute strategy: Short
term duration but high
infectivity.
- Candida Albicans
- Caused by a fungi
- Part of the normal
microflora, meaning it
can become an
opportunistic pathogen
- Causes a disgusting white
rash that itches.
- The disease is caused by overgrowth*
and the disease load ie number of
Candida increases
- Cryptosporidium
- Protozoan parasite that lives in water
- Can not be killed by chlorination
- Causes diarrhea is
self-limiting in
immunocompetent
- Is chronic, acute onset,
asymptomatic and
humans are not a natural
reservoir
- Mycoterium Bacterium
- Causes TB
- Chronic
infection
and acute
onset as
well as a
latent
period
- Body cant get rid so walls
of infection area