Projektnummer

N000579

Zusammenfassung

An infectious disease results from an uncontrolled spread of a microbial agent, i.e. bacteria, viruses or fungi, in an individual or a community of individuals. When infecting a susceptible individual, a microbial agent encounters a complex network of body cells and other factors which act together to contain and perhaps eliminate the invader; by virtue of their cooperation during the fight against the invader, these members of the body's immune system act as a 'community' - they never fight alone! Neither do the invading microbes - they arrive usually in large numbers, individual micr...