Prescott's Microbiology
Prescott's Microbiology
10th Edition
ISBN: 9781259281594
Author: Joanne Willey, Linda Sherwood Adjunt Professor Lecturer, Christopher J. Woolverton Professor
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 35.3, Problem 1RIA
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For the microbe to successfully establish an infection in the host, it must pass through five chains of infection, which are the agent, virulence, exposure, dose, and susceptibility. The exposure of the infection is considered to be spread of disease from host to host by various means.

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