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Chapter 14, Problem 5SA
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Five stages of infectious disease in correct sequence.

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Infectious biology deals with the pathogens and its mode of infection in the host and the diseases caused by them. Pathogenic microbes such as bacteria, fungi, and viruses have due course of time and different stages from their entry point into the host to its symptomatic disease period. It is said to be incubation period, prodromal period, illness, decline, and convalescence.

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