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  • Pathogens and cancers pose significant global health challenges.
  • Current understanding of disease mechanisms often lacks a holistic perspective.
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  • To generalize and extend an ecological framework for understanding disease.
  • To apply this framework to bacterial pathogens and cancers (Biological Etiological Agents - BEAs).
  • To inform the development of improved therapeutic strategies.

Main Methods:

  • Describing the necessity of an ecosystem framework for disease.
  • Identifying components and interactions within bacterial and cancer disease ecosystems.
  • Analyzing the states of BEAs (emergence, growth, spread, regression).

Main Results:

  • The proposed framework conceptualizes disease as an ecosystem with interacting components.
  • It details the dynamics of Biological Etiological Agents (BEAs) within the human host.
  • Six novel measures are proposed to enhance therapeutic interventions by manipulating the disease ecosystem.

Conclusions:

  • An ecological perspective is crucial for a comprehensive understanding of disease.
  • The framework provides insights into host-pathogen co-evolution and disease dynamics.
  • This approach promises to improve therapeutic outcomes by addressing BEA evasion and resistance.