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The following four features are characteristically infectious diseases, which are basically different from other diseases.

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Liu, B., Yang, X., Kong, L. (2015). Features of Infectious Diseases. In: Li, H. (eds) Radiology of Infectious Diseases: Volume 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9882-2_9

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