The etymology of microbial nomenclature and the diseases these cause in a historical perspective.

When the hunter-gatherers finally started settling down as farmers, infectious diseases started scourging them. The earlier humans could differentiate sporadic diseases like tooth decay, tumors, etc., from the infectious diseases that used to cause outbreaks and epidemics.

Treatment response in HCV related chronic hepatitis.

Objective: To evaluate the virological response to treatment with interferon and ribavirin in patients with hepatitis C related liver disease.

Design: A descriptive study.

Place And Duration Of Study: January to September 2002 at Virology Department, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology Rawalpindi.