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- Title
Dejiny teórie infekčnosti.
- Authors
Vyšehradský, Peter; Hudečková, Henrieta
- Abstract
The authors present an overview of the history of the study of infectivity phenomenon. They focus on the most important milestones in the history of knowledge about disease transmission. The overview based on a search of relevant and available domestic and foreign sources. The first clearly formulated hypotheses about disease transmission were identified in ancient sources. Although the understanding of infectivity at the time (miasmatic theory) was linked to mysticism and may seem naive today, it was probably the first comprehensive concept of infectivity and contains rational and basically correct considerations. This theory prevailed in the understanding of infectivity until the modern age. It was not until the epidemiological findings of John Snow or Ignaz Semmelweis about asepsis when it was recognised that the issue of infectivity is more complex than assumed by the miasmatic theory. These findings were subsequently supported by the identification of microbial pathogens by Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch. The authors also cite recent challenges in infectivity studies, such as the identification of viruses and prion proteins.
- Subjects
INFECTIOUS disease transmission; VIRUS identification; VIRAL proteins; ASEPSIS &; antisepsis; PASTEUR, Louis, 1822-1895; KOCH, Robert, 1843-1910; MYSTICISM
- Publication
Florence (1801-464X), 2022, Issue 2, p24
- ISSN
1801-464X
- Publication type
Article