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Diseases » Contagious Diseases » Summary

What is Contagious Diseases?

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What is Contagious Diseases?

Contagious Diseases: Any disease that can be transferred from person to person.
Contagious Diseases: invasion and growth of microorganisms in body tissues, which may be clinically inapparent or result in local cellular injury; a local infection may persist and spread by extension to become an acute, subacute, or chronic clinical infection or disease state or it may become systemic when the microorganisms gain access to the lymphatic or vascular system; does not always lead to injury of the host even if the pathogen is potentially virulent.
Source - Diseases Database
Contagious Diseases: a disease that can be communicated from one person to another.
Source - WordNet 2.1

Contagious Diseases: Introduction

Types of Contagious Diseases:

Types of Contagious Diseases:

What causes Contagious Diseases?

Causes of Contagious Diseases: see causes of Contagious Diseases
Risk factors for Contagious Diseases: see risk factors for Contagious Diseases

Contagious Diseases: Testing

Diagnostic testing: see tests for Contagious Diseases.

Misdiagnosis: see misdiagnosis and Contagious Diseases.

How is it treated?

Treatments for Contagious Diseases: see treatments for Contagious Diseases
Research for Contagious Diseases: see research for Contagious Diseases

Society issues for Contagious Diseases

Cost statistics for Contagious Diseases: The following are statistics from various sources about costs and Contagious Diseases:

$163.6 million spent on communicable disease in Australia 2000-01(Australia’s Health 2004, AIHW)
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Hospitalization statistics for Contagious Diseases: The following are statistics from various sources about hospitalizations and Contagious Diseases:

Hospitalization statistics in Australia:
- 0.09% (3,641) of hospital episodes were for communicable diseases in public hospitals in Australia 2001-02 (Australian Hospital Data, AIHW, Australia, 2001-02)
- 93% of hospitalisations for communicable diseases were single day episodes in public hospitals in Australia 2001-02 (Australian Hospital Data, AIHW, Australia, 2001-02)
- 88% of hospitalisations in public hospitals for communicable diseases were by public patients in Australia 2001-02 (Australian Hospital Data, AIHW, Australia, 2001-02)
- 12% of hospitalisations in public hospitals for communicable diseases were by private patients in Australia 2001-02 (Australian Hospital Data, AIHW, Australia, 2001-02)
- Hospitalisations for communicable diseases at public hospitals occurred in 1.9 people per 10,000 population in Australia 2001-02 (Australian Hospital Data, AIHW, Australia, 2001-02)
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