The infectious etiology of chronic diseases defining the relationship enhancing the research and mitigating the effects workshop summary institute of medicine us forum on microbial threats knobler sl oconnor s lemon sm najafi m editors washington dc national academies press us 2004 the national academies collection reports funded by national institutes of health in an . The infectious etiology of chronic diseases defining the relationship enhancing the research and mitigating the effects workshop summary show details institute of medicine us forum on microbial threats knobler sl oconnor s lemon sm et al editors. Decouvrez et achetez the infectious etiology of chronic diseases defining the relationship enhancing the research and mitigating the effects workshop summary. The infectious etiology of chronic diseases defining the relationship enhancing the research and mitigating the effects summarizes a two day workshop held by the institute of medicines forum on microbial threats to address this rapidly evolving field participants explored factors driving infectious etiologies of chronic diseases of prominence identified difficulties in linking infectious agents with chronic outcomes and discussed broad based strategies and research programs to