title: [Current understanding of the pathogenesis of infectious diseases].
abstract: New experimental data in such research fields as molecular biology, biochemistry, genomics and others as well as the changes occurring in the medical-and-epidemiological situation in respect to a number of infectious diseases dictate the necessity to systemize and to revise the appropriate knowledge for the purpose of ensuring a more profound understanding of the processes providing a foundation for the relations within the system of "host--parasite". The article deals with modern aspects of investigating the pathogenesis of infectious diseases, i.e. issues of the genetic and of structural-and-functional organization as well as of regulation of the pathogenetic potential of microorganisms; and mechanism of antimicrobial protection of microorganisms including from the standpoint of evolutionary biology.
authors.forename: E V
authors.initials: EV
authors.lastname: Pimenov
authors.forename: A A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Totolian
authors.forename: A A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Byvalov
authors.forename: I V
authors.initials: IV
authors.lastname: Darmov
authors.forename: M P
authors.initials: MP
authors.lastname: Roshchevskiĭ
mesh_terms: D003141:Communicable Diseases / Q000209:etiology* / Q000235:genetics / Q000382:microbiology; D006801:Humans