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(of a disease or condition) Regularly found among particular people or in a certain area.
What is an endemic?
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the clumping together of red blood cells.
What is hemagglutination?
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objects or materials that are likely to carry infection, such as clothes, utensils, and furniture.
What is fomite?
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T, B, NK
What is are lymphocytes?
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(of a disease) prevalent over a whole country or the world.
What is a pandemic?
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medical Definition of agglutination. : a reaction in which particles (as red blood cells or bacteria) suspended in a liquid collect into clumps and which occurs especially as a serological response to a specific antibody.
What is agglutination?
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the cause, set of causes, or manner of causation of a disease or condition.
What is etiology?
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the doctrine that mutual dependence is necessary to social well-being. symbiosis that is beneficial to both organisms involved.
What is mutualism?
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a toxin released by a living bacterial cell into its surroundings.
What is exotoxin?
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medical Definition of sporadic. 1 : occurring occasionally, singly, or in scattered instances. sporadic diseases — compare endemic, epidemic 1.
What is sporadic?
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the concentration of a solution as determined by titration. the minimum volume of a solution needed to reach the endpoint in a titration.
What is titer?
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a disease that can be transmitted to humans from animals.
What is zoonosis?
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A leukocidin is a type of cytotoxin created by some types of bacteria (Staphylococcus) . It is a type of pore forming toxin. Leukocidins get their names by killing ("-cide") leukocytes.
What is leukocidins?
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a toxin that is present inside a bacterial cell and is released when the cell disintegrates. It is sometimes responsible for the characteristic symptoms of a disease, e.g., in botulism.
What is endotoxin?
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the occurrence, rate, or frequency of a disease, crime, or something else undesirable. "an increased incidence of cancer"
What is an epidemic?
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a chemically modified toxin from a pathogenic microorganism, which is no longer toxic but is still antigenic and can be used as a vaccine.
What is toxoid?
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an organism, typically a biting insect or tick, that transmits a disease or parasite from one animal or plant to another.
What is a vector?
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In immunology, seroconversion is the time period during which a specific antibody develops and becomes detectable in the blood. After seroconversion has occurred, the disease can be detected in blood tests for the antibody.
What is seroconversion?
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The enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay is a test that uses antibodies and color change to identify a substance
What is ELISA test?
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the occurrence, rate, or frequency of a disease, crime, or something else undesirable. "an increased incidence of cancer"
What is incidence?
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Common cold Flu Strep throat Urinary tract infection Cellulitis Stomach flu Pneumonia Middle ear infection Sexually transmitted disease
What is a communicable disease?
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Mosquito borne, single stranded RNA, mostly tropical, can cause encephalitis.
What is Dengue virus?
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Taken into the body or administered in a manner other than through the digestive tract, as by intravenous or intramuscular injection.
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Etiologic agents are those microorganisms and microbial toxins that cause disease in humans and include bacteria, bacterial toxins, viruses, fungi, rickettsiae, protozoans, and parasites. These disease-causing microorganisms may also. be referred to as infectious agents.
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