Applied Microbiology, Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases

Rare diseases caused by infectious agents rather than genetic or environmental factors. A rare disease, also referred to as an orphan disease, is any disease that affects a small percentage of the population. Some of the diseases are: acanthamoeba keratitis, progressive vaccine, rat-bite fever, etc. Infectious diseases have been evolving and re-evolving over the ages and causing immense misery the majority of all human infectious diseases and pandemics have originated through the cross-species transmission of microorganisms from animals to humans, overwhelmingly in the old world to humans. Vulnerability to malaria, tuberculosis, and hiv/aids infection and disease.

Rare infectious diseases caused by infectious mediators rather than genetic or environmental aspects. Some of them are

• Chickenpox (varicella)
• Coronaviruses
• Dengue
• Diphtheria
• Ebola
• Flu (influenza)
• Hepatitis
• Rubella