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Infectivity: The potential ability of micro-organisms or parasites to cause disease in man, animal, or plant under specified conditions. [e]
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Parent topics
- Infectious disease [r]: In broad terms, diseases caused by living organisms; also a subspecialty of internal medicine concerned with the treatment of such diseases [e]
- Epidemiology [r]: The branch of demography that studies patterns of disease in human or animal populations. [e]
Subtopics
- Virulence [r]: The degree of pathogenicity within a group or species of microorganisms or viruses as indicated by case fatality rates and/or the ability of the organism to invade the tissues of the host (Medical Subject Headings) [e]
- Disease transmission [r]: Add brief definition or description