Microbiology with Diseases by Body System (4th Edition)

Published by Benjamin Cummings
ISBN 10: 032191855X
ISBN 13: 978-0-32191-855-0

Chapter 14 - Infection, Infectious Diseases, and Epidemiology - Questions For Review - Short Answer - Page 446: 9

Answer

Infection is when harmul pathogens evades/passes through the body's external defense barriers, multiply, and establish themselves in the host body. But infection may not always result in diseases/morbidities. The pathogen just successfully entering the body is infection. Whereas, morbidity is when the pathogen that had efficiently evaded past the defenses causes enough harm to disrupt the normal functioning of the host body. Morbidity is the change in normal health state and is commonly known as disease.

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