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process.
Classification of infectious
diseases
Plan of lecture
1. Epidemiology is a science about laws of epidemic process
3. Classification of carriage
Epidemiological of classification of
infectious diseases is based on the
principle of the
mechanism transmission of an
infection,
the source of an infection and
etiological factor.
It provides division of all infections into 5
groups:
the intestinal infections,
infection transmissed by respiratory ways,
transmissible diseases,
infection covers, and
with various mechanisms of transmission.
EPIDEMIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION
OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES
There are 3 subgroups in each group
according to a source of an infection:
anthroponosis,
zooanthroponosis,
sapronosis.
There is a division on according to
etiological sign in each subgroup:
viruses, bacteria, protozoas,
helminthes.
For example, the subgroup of
anthroponosis intestinal infections