CHSC 404 - Advanced Pathophysiology: Etiologic Agents

Etiologic Agents

Etiologic agents include biologic agents, physical forces, chemical agents, genetic inheritance, nutritional influence (Norris & Tuan, 2020, p. 2).

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Biologic Agents

"The agents that cause disease fall into five groups: viruses, bacteria, fungi, protozoa, and helminths (worms). Protozoa and worms are usually grouped together as parasites, and are the subject of the discipline of parasitology, whereas viruses, bacteria, and fungi are the subject of microbiology." Pathogens also include infectious proteins called prions (Alberts et al., 2002; Janeway et al., 2001).

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Physical Forces

Chemical Agents

Genetic Inheritance

Nutritional Excess or Deficiency

Sources

Alberts, B., Johnson, A., Lewis, J., Raff, M., Roberts, K., & Walter, P. (2002). Introduction to pathogens. In Molecular Biology of the Cell. (4th ed.) Garland Science. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK26917/

Janeway, C. A., Travers, P., Walport, M., & Shlomchik, M. J. (2001). Infectious agents and how they cause disease. In Immunobiology: The Immune System in Health and Disease. (5th ed.) Garland Science. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK27114/

Norris, T. L. & Tuan, R. L. (2020). Porth's essentials of pathophysiology. (5th ed.) Wolters Kluwer.