Concept in Definition ABC
Miscellanea / / July 04, 2021
By Florencia Ucha, in Mar. 2009
A pathogen or biological pathogen it is that element or medium capable of producing some type of disease or damage to the body of an animal, a human being or a plant, whose conditions are predisposed to the aforementioned occasions.
Any pathogenic process that boasts of such holds various factors, some that may be absolute responsibility of the host and others that are due to the specific and direct action of the harmful or pathogenic element.
On the one hand we find the intrinsic factors of exclusive property of the host, such as the inheritancegenetics, its immunology, physiological conditions, age, sex, pre-existing diseases and his lifestyle and behavior, among the most important.
Meanwhile, of all those mentioned, the lifestyle and behavior that the host practices regularly, is usually the most decisive when it comes to acquiring diseases and even it is also the one that most allows us to manipulate it by displaying various circumstances that will help the
prevention of the same, among them, maintain a correct hygiene personal, a balanced diet, exercise, suspension of the consumption of drugs, alcohol or other drugs, if you have them, interruption of those contacts interpersonal or, failing that, those leisure activities that contribute to their development, including others.The immune system of each living being will be the main key or obstacle at the time of the development of any pathogenic processFor this reason, people who are correctly vaccinated are less likely to be attacked by these.
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