SMA News Puzzle (June 2021)
Across
- 2. Vaccine was the first vaccine to be developed against a contagious disease
- 9. Director-general of the World Health Organization
- 10. Refers to sound-induced dizziness
- 11. An antibody-based method to detect a specific protein in a sample
- 13. Bacteria which produces many small cysts that spread throughout the internal organs of the infected individual. The resultant disease is called Alveolar echinococcosis
- 14. Endogenous steroid and progestogen sex hormone involved in the menstrual cycle and pregnancy
- 15. The first vaccine for this was approved in 2006
- 16. Best known for discovering the world's first broadly effective antibiotic substance, which he named penicillin
Down
- 1. A diagnostic test for tuberculosis screening
- 3. French chemist and microbiologist who helped to develop vaccines for anthrax and rabies
- 4. A genetic disorder in which the electrical activity within the heart is abnormal and most commonly involved gene is SCN5A which encodes the cardiac sodium channel
- 5. Prominent physician who also founded OCBC Bank
- 6. Are found in the red pulp of the spleen between the sinusoids and contain monocytes as a reserve
- 7. Also known as the hepatopancreatic duct
- 8. Known as "the founder of modern neurology" and associated with at least 15 medical eponyms
- 12. An antibiotic that is used to treat a wide variety of infections. It works by stopping the growth of certain bacteria and parasites