title: [Critical analysis of different concept of causation in infectious pathology].
abstract: The author presents critical analysis of different views on the problem of causation in the infectious pathology. The groundlessness of identification of individual causative factors with the cause was demonstrated. The dialectic conception on the cause of a specific interaction of the external (pathogenic causative agent) and of the internal (the organism reactivity) is substantiated. In considering the causation principle in the teaching on infectious diseases is substantiated. In considering the causation principle in the teaching on infectious diseases the author distinguishes: 1) causative (etiological) factor as one of the sides of interaction 2) the cause--a specific controversial process of the interaction of the sides leading to a new sequence; 3) conditions--factors influencing the interaction realization; 4) sequence--the result of interaction characterized by the origination of the disease or of the infection carrier state. The dialectic way of cognition should course from the study of the causative factors to their interaction, and through it to detection of the essence of the infectious process with the internal contradictions inherent to it. The methodological significance of the principle of causation in the investigation of the pathogenetic infection mechanisms and in the substantiation of rational diagnostic, therapeutic and prophylactic measures is presented.
mesh_terms: D003141:Communicable Diseases / Q000209:etiology*; D003148:Communism; D010684:Philosophy
vernacular_title: Kriticheskiĭ analiz razlichnykh kontseptsii prichinnosti v infektsionnoĭ patologii.