Rediscovering Biology - Online Textbook: Unit 5 Emerging Infectious Diseases

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	Genomics

	Proteins & Proteomics

	Evolution & Phylogenetics

	Microbial Diversity

	Emerging Infectious Diseases
		Introduction
		Why Do Diseases Emerge?
		The Human Body as an Ecosystem
		The Emergence of Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria
		Mechanisms of Resistance
		Microbial Adaptation and Change
		Lateral Gene Transfer
		Transposons
		Travel, Demographics, and Susceptibility
		New Technologies
		Animal Reservoirs
		Insect Vectors
		Climate and Weather
		Preventing and Controlling Emerging Infectious Disease

	HIV & AIDS

	Genetics of Development

	Cell Biology & Cancer

	Human Evolution

	Neurobiology

	Biology of Sex & Gender

	Biodiversity

	Genetically Modified Organisms

New Technologies

The evolution of new pathogens is not just a function of human-pathogen or human-human interactions. Sometimes people also unwittingly provide new environments where disease-causing organisms thrive. In the 1970s, for example, air-conditioning systems became widely available. A bacterium normally found in fresh water lakes, Legionella pneumophila, moved into the systems, gaining access to susceptible humans. The result was a previously unreported respiratory infection.

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