A Basic Primer of Infectious Disease.

All infectious disease is caused by an infectious agent, for example a virus or a bacterium. Since only bacterial infection is relevent to this web page, I will focus only on bacterial disease. The following is a list of headings, each of which is a link to a page of information on that topic.

• What are bacteria?
• How are bacteria identified?
• How and why do bacteria infect the human body?
• What are the Normal Flora?
• How does the human body react to infection?
• What is the "Inflammatory Response"?
• How do bacteria evade the immune system?
• Koch's Postulates.

And next, some specific information about mycobacteria.

• Mycobacteria.
• Human immune reactions to mycobacteria
• Treating mycobacterial infection with drugs.

Source: http://crohn.ie/archive/primer.htm
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