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There is a wide range of microorganisms: viruses, rickettsia, chlamydia, mycoplasma, bacteria, fungi, and protozoa that produce damage to internal tissues and organs by their ability to break through or circumvent the multifaceted defensive barriers at the various external and internal body surfaces of the host. Some of these microorganisms can be transmitted via fertilized eggs of the host or are acquired during intrauterine differentiation of individuals when the host-defensive barriers are immature. In fact, there exists no definitive borderline of exogenous versus endogenous disease in the case of certain viral genetic materials which have been incorporated into the chromosomes of zygotic cells and later initiate active pathogenic processes at a certain stage of postnatal life.
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Wake, A., Morgan, H.R. (1986). Invasive (Penetrating) Infections (Except Yersiniosis). In: Host-Parasite Relationships and the Yersinia Model. Springer Series in Molecular Biology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-71344-6_6
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