English-Finnish translations for infectious disease

• tartuntatauti
  Tämä tartuntatauti on kaksivaiheinen. There are two stages to this infectious disease.
  Tauti on hyvin vaarallinen ihmisille ja toiseksi yleisimmin kuolinsyynä esiintyvä tartuntatauti. It is a disease which represents a serious danger to people and is the second greatest cause of death among infectious diseases worldwide.
• infektiologia
• tarttuva tauti
  BSE ei ole tarttuva tauti, joka leviää eläimestä toiseen. BSE is not an infectious disease that is transmitted horizontally.
  Kolera on erittäin tarttuva tauti. Sen aiheuttaa bakteeri, joka saa aikaan suolistotulehduksen. Cholera is a highly infectious disease caused by a bacterium which creates an intestinal infection.
  Arvoisa puhemies, suu- ja sorkkatauti on karjaan hyvin helposti tarttuva tauti, mutta täysin vaaraton ihmiselle. Mr President, foot and mouth disease is a highly infectious disease for our livestock, but completely harmless to humans.
• tartuntatautioppi

Definition of infectious disease

• An illness caused by a specific infectious agent , that results from transmission of that agent from an infected person, animal, or reservoir to a susceptible host
• A medical specialty dealing with the diagnosis, control and treatment of infections

Related words

• infectious
• infectiousness
• toxi-infectious
• infectious mononucleosis
• infectious disease control
• infectious disease specialist
• infectious necrotic hepatitis
• infectious arthritis
• infectious diarrhea