The Infectious Etiology of Chronic Diseases: Defining the Relationship, Enhancing the Research, and Mitigating the Effects: Workshop Summary

by Stacey L. Knobler, Board on Global Health, Institute of Medicine, et al.

In recent years, a number of chronic diseases have been linked, in some cases definitively, to an infectious etiology: peptic ulcer disease with Helicobacter pylori, cervical cancer with several human papillomaviruses, Lyme arthritis and neuroborreliosis with Borrelia burgdorferi, AIDS with the human immunodeficiency virus, liver cancer and cirrhosis with hepatitis B and C viruses, to name a few. The proven and suspected roles of microbes does not...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309089948
• ISBN13: 9780309089944
• Release Date: July 2004
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.4"