(medicine, historical) One who believed in a certain theory of infectious diseases.

The condition of being allospecific

Having a damaging psychological effect opposite to that of therapy.

(historical) The art and science of methodical travel.

(epidemiology) The expected number of infection cases to be directly infected by an infected individual, given a population that is equally susceptible.

(pathology, psychology, sociology) Synonym of social contagion

(epidemiology) A group of nine principles, widely used in public health research, that can be useful in establishing epidemiologic evidence of a causal relationship between a presumed cause and an observed effect.

(genetics, pathology) A person or other organism that has a genetic trait, mutation or infection liable to cause a disease, but displays no symptoms.

infective along with another

A graphical representation of the spread of a contagion

(pathology) An abnormal condition of a human, animal or plant that causes discomfort or dysfunction; distinct from injury insofar as the latter is usually instantaneously acquired.

(derogatory) The practice of widening the diagnostic boundaries of illnesses in order to expand the markets for treatments.

(medicine, countable) A physical or mental malfunction.

(medicine) Having an unfavourable effect in treating a condition.

(sciences) The branch of science dealing with the spread and control of diseases, viruses, concepts etc. throughout populations or systems.

To make, or to become epidemic

(medicine) A cause for an effect in a system that is not a constituent of that system, especially causes of personal health problems or death, such as poison, weapon wounds, or accident.

The theory (coherent scientific explanation of an observable fact) that some diseases are caused by microorganisms.

The condition of being hyperinfectious

The quality of being iatrogenic.

(medicine) A peculiar individual reaction to a generally innocuous substance or factor.

(epidemiology) A measure of the rate of new occurrence of a given medical condition in a population within a specified period of time.

(pathology) The development of a disease from its causes, or the period of such development.

(epidemiology) The time elapsed between an exposure to a pathogenic organism, a chemical or radiation, and the appearance of signs and symptoms.

(epidemiology) The first documented patient in a disease epidemic within a population or the first case of interest in an epidemiological investigation; the case of patient zero.

(historical) The belief that diseases were spread by infection.

All the infectious organisms associated with a particular disease

Any of four criteria designed to establish a causative relationship between a microbe and a disease: (i) the microorganism must be found in abundance in all organisms suffering from the disease, but should not be found in healthy organisms; (ii) it must be isolated from a diseased organism and grown in pure culture; (iii) the cultured microorganism should cause disease when introduced into a healthy organism; (iv) the microorganism must be reisolated from the inoculated, diseased experimental host and identified as being identical to the original specific causative agent.

(homeopathy) A predisposition to a particular disease, which interferes with subsequent treatment of it.

Synonym of Pandemic (“relating to Aphrodite Pandemos”)

(historical) The theory that all diseases are caused by germs.

(epidemiology) The initial patient in the population of an epidemiological investigation.

(epidemiology) The percentage of people who have tested positive out of all of those who have been tested (for a given pathogen).

Relating to postinfection

Relating to preinfection

(epidemiology) The total number of cases of a disease in a given statistical population at a given time, divided by the number of individuals in that population.

An unaffected carrier of cancer, who has not been diagnosed with it but has survived the predisposition, or higher risk, due to certain genetic mutations.

(virology) A phenomenon that can develop during a pandemic where after a group recovers and infections appear to decrease, another group becomes infected and causes a recurrence in cases.

(pathology) Any infection that arises subsequent to a pre-existing infection; but especially a nosocomial infection

(pathology) In epidemiology of communicable (infectious) diseases, the time period between the onset of symptoms with the primary patient and the onset of symptoms with the secondary patient (infected by primary).

(pathology, zoology) The inability of a disease to be transmitted from one species to a different one.

(epidemiology) The spread of an infectious pathogen from humans to non-human animals.

(pharmacology, of a dosage) That is insufficient to have a psychotomimetic effect

An infection which follows or occurs during another infection or disease process

(medicine, virology, neologism) An epidemic convergence of three illnesses: COVID-19, influenza, and RSV.

(medicine) The time between first infection and detectability.