Search results for "Infectious diseases" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • ) is short for proteinaceous infectious particle that lacks nucleic ... Prion diseases are transmissible neurodegenerative conditions that ...
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  • and meningitis are distinctly different diseases, they often share signs ... avoid contact with those who have infectious diseases causing meningitis ...
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  • discovered the contagious nature of infectious diseases such as scabies, tuberculosis ... century, Ibn Khatima posited that infectious diseases are caused by microorganisms ...
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  • health problems, including infectious diseases and epidemics, environmental ... prevention and control (especially infectious diseases), environmental health ...
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  • of conferring increased resistance to an infectious disease by a means other ... processes for a vast number of diseases, beginning on a large scale ...
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  • but commonly is associated with acute infectious mononucleosis, as well ... and pregnancy.] The Journal of Infectious Diseases 147(6): 982–6. PMID ...
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  • Trachoma, also known as granular conjunctivitis, is an infectious ... in the world, and the leading cause of infectious blindness (GNNTD 2006 ...
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  • A number of commercially important diseases affect silkworms. Notable ... ** Infectious or viral flaccherie is initially a virus infection, ...
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  • diversion colitis, ischemic colitis, infectious colitis, fulminant colitis ... A well-known subtype of infectious colitis is pseudomembranous colitis ...
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  • Gonorrhea is a common, highly contagious, sexually transmitted diseases ... National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases: Gonorrhea Factsheet]. ...
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  • levels, long work hours, exposure to infectious diseases and hazardous substances ... Exposure to respiratory infectious diseases like tuberculosis (caused ...
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  • Neurology is a medical specialty dealing with disorders and diseases ... Some cases of nervous system infectious diseases are treated by infectious ...
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  • smuts are parasitic on plants and cause diseases of important agricultural ... Eventually, the host is infected by infectious hyphae. Teliospores form ...
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  • Scarlet fever or scarlatina is an acute, contagious infectious disease ... S. pyogenes is the cause of many important human diseases ranging ...
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  • is the name of a group of infectious diseases caused by salmonella ... == Salmonella-associated diseases == Salmonellosis Disease-causing ...
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  • Many diseases can alter function in the enteric nervous systems. Among the most important are diabetic autonomic neuropathy (which results in ...
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  • in the case of impetigo. Some other diseases that can be caused by Group ... Untreated patients are most infectious for two to three weeks after ...
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  • nations struggle to battle infectious diseases nearly eradicated by DDT. of abating and eradicating" infectious diseases, all changed with ...
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  • achievements in combating various infectious diseases in Africa or in establishing ... 1928." Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases. 2 (3): 164-8. ...
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  • superior Christian faith. Old World diseases caused epidemics killing ... or kills many people; it must also be infectious. For example cancer is ...
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