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An infection is growth of pathogenic microorganisms in the body, whether or not body function is impaired.

Disease is any change from a state of health; impaired body function. The disease state is associated with the manifestation of symptoms such as fever, pain, aches etc., due to failure of immune system to control in the first round of the growth of infectious agent (s).

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