Multiple viral pathogenicity: another paradigm in medical research?

Article Abstract:

Pathogenic virus can cause multiple diseases suggesting the need to modify the conventional notion that a specific agent cause a a single disease. Measles virus, retroviruses, DNA viruses and papovaviruses can cause multiple diseases. Unconventional viruses can induce degenerative pathology as in the case of espongiform encephalopathy. Many of lymphotropic viruses cause alterations in the immune mechanism leading to autoimmune responses against self-antigens.

Virus diseases

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On the patterns of disease: a nosography

Article Abstract:

Since the earliest of times, man has been fascinated by the nature, causes and spread of disease. An astonishing amount of progress has been made over the last 300 years in the field of biological medicine. We have advanced from Galileo with his philosophy on the observation of nature to the achievements of the specialists in this century. There has been one long quest by human beings to exert power over nature.

Methods, Science, Scientific method, Culture, Science and civilization

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