DISEASE DETERMINANTS
Each factor or variable that affects the formation of a disease and its frequency in the population is called a determinant
Primer setter
Secondary determinant
Internal (intrinsic, endogenous) determinant
Outsourcing (extrinsic, exogenous) determinant
Host-agent-environment determinants
HOST DETERMINANTS
A susceptible host must be present in order for a disease to occur
Kind
Horse and cattle, beef cattle, distemper (dog juvenile disease), Campylobacter fetus subsp venerealis
Anthrax (anthrax) - poultry
C. fetus subsp infertility, enzootic in cattle, sporadic abortion in cattle
Race
Large dog breeds - joint dysplasia, osteosarcoma Bos taurus ırkı cattle - tick and tick-borne diseases Algerian sheep - Brucella melitensis
Hereford cattle eye cancer (no protective pigment)
HOST DETERMINANTS
Age
Distemper's disease in dogs, infectious bronchitis in chickens
Cancer
Histophilus ovis - septicemic infection in young sheep epididymitis in adult coaches
Pasteurella haemolytica - pneumonik infection in the calves septicemic infection in sheep
Gender
Anatomic - metritis, mastitis, epididymitis, orchitis Hormonal - diabetes mellitus in the teeth (after estrus)
Genetics - Gender related (hemophilia A and B in male dogs) Gender limited (cryptorchidism in male dogs)
Gender-increasing (open ductus arteriosis in female dogs)
Use of animal - male dog - hunting
female calf - descent continuity