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THE TRUE NATURE OF ZOONOSES: THE IDENTITY OF TRANSMISSIBLE DISEASES IN MAN AND OTHER VERTEBRATES
Pires, Fernando Dias de Avila | Date Issued:
2017
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Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Departamento de Medicina Tropical. Pesquisador Senior. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Abstract
This paper argues the nature and identity of diseases as they affect man and other vertebrates,
and its importance when selecting animal models for experimental laboratory research (Russell
et al., 2017). Here I stress the notion that in the case of the zoonoses, what is transmitted
are parasites/microorganisms and not diseases, as the same microorganism may cause distinct
clinical symptoms and signs in different hosts.
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