Talk:Focus of infection

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Problem with sources?

PrinceSulaiman, what is wrong with the sources? You just put problem tags here. This seems solid enough to me. Blue Rasberry (talk) 14:57, 12 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

On your purpose for this article, You have not provided any reliable source which it could be trusted. Please consider adding at least a reference from outside of the Wikipedia. --Prince Sulaiman (talk) 15:02, 12 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
PrinceSulaiman Sorry, I just added the url and the page number of the dictionary I cited. Please see this source.
  • Last, ed. Miquel Porta ; assoc. ed. Sander Greenland, John M. (2008). A dictionary of epidemiology (5th ed. ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 112. ISBN 978-0195314502. {{cite book}}: |edition= has extra text (help); |first1= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
Does this meet your expectations? No doubt this is a strange and rarely used term. Blue Rasberry (talk) 15:09, 12 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Perfect, I'll remove the tag for now. Please make sure to improve on reference and also do not add Wikipedia's links on the Reference since you can use the Wiki-links instead. --Prince Sulaiman (talk) 15:12, 12 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Focus of infection =/= focal infection theory

Focus of infection, which apparently is an epidemiological term about a geographic location from which epidemics might spread in populations, whereas focal infection theory deals with pathology within one host, not a population. It is about a local infection, e.g. tonsillitis causing, say, infective endocarditis in the same host. Pages could be merged because the terms are similar I suppose, but there is a difference in meaning here and if merged both concepts would need to be covered. 94.196.232.188 (talk) 16:10, 12 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]