how are the disease caused by microorganism classified? explain by giving suitable example.

The diseases caused by microorganisms can be classified on various basis. some of them are mentioned below

On the basis of causative agent, diseases may be classified broadly into four types

1. Bacterial diseases. For example Typhoid

2. Viral diseases.  For example Common cold

3. Fungal diseases. For example Ringworm

4. Protozoan diseases. For example Malaria

 

On the basis of whether a disease spreads or not,  there are two types of diseases

1. Infectious diseases. Theses are those diseases which spread from infected person to healthy person. For example cholera.

2. Non infectious diseases; Theses are those type of the disease which do not spread from infected to healthy person. For example  cancer caused by oncoviruses.

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Primary pathogens cause disease as a result of their presence or activity within the normal, healthy host, and their intrinsic virulence (the severity of the disease they cause) is, in part, a necessary consequence of their need to reproduce and spread. Many of the most common primary pathogens of humans only infect humans, however many serious diseases are caused by organisms acquired from the environment or which infect non-human hosts.
Organisms which cause an infectious disease in a host with depressed resistance are classified as opportunistic pathogens. Opportunistic disease may be caused by microbes that are ordinarily in contact with the host, such as pathogenic bacteria or fungi in the gastrointestinal or the upper respiratory tract, and they may also result from (otherwise innocuous) microbes acquired from other hosts (as in Clostridium difficile colitis) or from the environment as a result of traumatic introduction (as in surgical wound infections or compound fractures). An opportunistic disease requires impairment of host defenses, which may occur as a result of genetic defects (such as Chronic granulomatous disease), exposure to antimicrobial drugs or immunosuppressive chemicals (as might occur following poisoning or cancer chemotherapy), exposure to ionizing radiation, or as a result of an infectious disease with immunosuppressive activity (such as with measles, malaria or HIV disease). Primary pathogens may also cause more severe disease in a host with depressed resistance than would normally occur in an immunosufficient host.[1]
 

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