Etiology and pathogenesis are very related. Etiology includes risk factors and causative organisms and is the actual cause of disease. Pathogenesis is how those things went about causing the disease: the mechanism of disease.
Example: Tuberculoses
Etiology: intravenous drug user injected, became infected with m. tuberculosis
Pathogenesis: m. tuberculosis invaded into the lung, started destroying tissue, causing cough, etc.
Disease: tuberculosis
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