[Improvement of classification of human diseases of biological nature].
General problems of classification and nomenclature of human diseases caused by agents of biological nature are reviewed. From biological and epidemiological position, prion diseases that belong to non-infectious human pathology are analyzed. Directions of improvement of ecologic-etiologic and ecologic-epidemiologic classifications and nomenclature of human diseases caused by infectious, invasive and prion agents are determined.
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D000818:Animals; D006801:Humans; D017096:Prion Diseases / Q000145:classification* / Q000453:epidemiology; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors