Pestology

Pestology is a subspecialty of biology and infectology, focusing on the science of pest organisms, infectious disease they spread, and the regulation or management of organisms and infectious disease defined as pests.
To understand pestology you must understand what it is a subspecialty of. The definition of pest, according to , is "an organism which is detrimental to humans or human concerns". The definition of Infectious disease (Also according to ) is "a clinically evident illness resulting from the presence of pathogenic microbial agents, including pathogenic viruses, pathogenic bacteria, fungi, protozoa, multicellular parasites, and aberrant proteins known as prions". So, technically, as an infectious disease can be an organism that causes illness (detriment), an infectious disease can be considered a pest. Therefore, pestology studies detrimental pests that are animals and insects, as well as infectious disease associated with pests, or classify the infectious diseases as pests themselves. Using a disinfectant on mold can be considered "pestology educated" pest control.
A specialist of pestology is called a pestologist.

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