title: [Doctrine of the transmission of the causative agents of infections and social and ecologic concepts of the epidemic process].
abstract: The concept on social and ecologic determination of the epidemic process in its direct connection with L.V. Gromashevsky's doctrine on the transmission mechanism of the causative agents of infection is presented. The role of this concept in the development of epidemiological science is discussed.
authors.affiliation: Central Research Institute of Epidemiology, Moscow, Russia.
authors.forename: B L
authors.initials: BL
authors.lastname: Cherkasskiĭ
mesh_terms: D003141:Communicable Diseases / Q000382:microbiology / Q000469:parasitology / Q000635:transmission*; D004755:Enterobacteriaceae / Q000472:pathogenicity*; D004756:Enterobacteriaceae Infections / Q000635:transmission*; D004813:Epidemiology / Q000266:history; D049673:History, 20th Century; D012924:Social Conditions; D014586:USSR