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What are Organ specific and Tissues specific Manifestations?

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Disease causing microbes enter the body by different means and goes to different organs and tissues.

  • Microbes which enters through the nose are likely to go to the lungs. ( Bacteria which cause tuberculosis of lungs).
  • Microbes which enter through the mouth are likely to stay in the gut ( Bacteria which causes Typhoid) or liver (Bacteria which causes Jaundice).
  • Virus which causes AIDS enter the body through sexual organs during sexual contact and spreads through the lymph to all parts of the body and damages the immune system.
  • Malaria-causing microbes, entering through a mosquito bite, will go to the liver, and then to the red blood cells.
  • The virus causing Japanese encephalitis, or brain fever, will similarly enter through a mosquito bite goes and infects the brain.


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