Abstract
Institute of Medicine Forum on Emerging Infections: Linking Infectious Agents and Chronic Diseases
Highlights
The belief that many long-recognized chronic diseases are infectious in origin dates to the mid-nineteenth century, when cancer was studied as a possible infectious disease
In the 1950s and 1960s, much biomedical research was unsuccessful in confirming microbial causes of various chronic syndromes
Cancers, demyelinating syndromes, cardiovascular disease, neuropsychiatric diseases, hepatitis, and diabetes mellitus were among the chronic conditions addressed
Summary
The belief that many long-recognized chronic diseases are infectious in origin dates to the mid-nineteenth century, when cancer was studied as a possible infectious disease. Recent years are marked by successful identification of several causal infectious agents of chronic disease such as Human papillomavirus in cervical cancer, but challenges and controversies remain.
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