Abstract

COBOS VALDES, Dailín et al. General Features to Analyze on Zoonosis. CCM [online]. 2014, vol.18, n.4, pp. 709-724. ISSN 1560-4381.

The topic of zoonosis is of great interest in the field of medicine, epidemiology and society in general. General knowledge about this term and its relation to other important concepts make it an interesting subject for reflection. Perform an update on this issue, its importance and its interrelation with other fields of knowledge is the purpose of this document. A search for information was made in the PubMed database. The concepts of zoonosis, emerging and reemerging diseases, laboratory-acquired infections and the factors that develop it were revealed. Seven types of zoonosis which highlights research updates, economic impact, biosafety level of the biological agent that produces and updated some of the province of Holguin data were described. The update of this subject reveals importacia not only in the field of medicine, but serves as supplementary material for students of second year of Medicine that receive the contents of Microbiology and Medical Parasitology, because it allows the integration of subjects taught in this subject and highlights the importance of prevention of these zoonotic diseasesregarding the close relationship between epidemiology, prevention and control.

Keywords : zoonosis; medicine; epidemiology.

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