Pathogenesis Quotes

Viruses have to live somewhere. They can only replicate in living creatures. So, when the Ebola virus disappears between outbreaks, it has to be living in some reservoir host, presumably some species of animal.

Herrmann Pidoux and Armand Trousseau stated 'Disease exists within us, because of us, and through us', Pasteur did not entirely disagree, 'This is true for certain diseases', he wrote cautiously, only to add immediately: 'I do not think that it is true for all of them'.

Physicians, when the cause of disease is discovered, consider that the cure is discovered.

As it takes two to make a quarrel, so it takes two to make a disease, the microbe and its host.

As long as we do not know how the cell works, we don't know the kind of havoc the AIDS virus creates in the cell.

...Search for the cause may be a hopeless pursuit because most disease states are the indirect outcome of a constellation of circumstances.

The discovery that I soon made that the guinea pig was also susceptible to infection made it possible for me, from the third year on, to preserve the virus on this animal.

Investigating rare diseases gives researchers more clues about how the healthy immune system functions.