Tim's Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 2. Which retroviral infection is most associated with AIDS?
  2. 4. A member of the virus family Flaviviridae. It is spread by daytime-active Aedes mosquitoes
  3. 10. What is the most sexually transmitted disease in the United States and leading cause of 99.7 percent of all cases of cervical cancer in women?
  4. 11. A serious, contagious and some times deadly disease caused by the Orthopox virus
  5. 12. What is the term for a type of antimicrobial drug used in the treatment of disease?
  6. 16. Which gram-negative, microaerophilic bacterium is found usually in the upper gastrointestinal tract?
  7. 17. The disease was first identified in laboratory monkeys, hence its name
  8. 18. Also known as lactotransferrin, is a multifunctional protein of the transferrin family
  9. 19. A highly toxic, naturally occurring lectin produced in the seeds of the castor oil plant, Ricinus communis
  10. 21. What do you call the therapeutic use of bacteriophages to treat pathogenic bacterial infections?
  11. 22. Is a type of viral hemorrhagic fever caused by the Lassa virus
  12. 24. Which obligate intracellular parasite is the most common bacterial sexually transmitted disease in humans and leading cause of infectious blindness worldwide?
  13. 25. What is the causative agent of whooping cough?
  14. 27. What is a biological preparation that provides active acquired immunity to a particular disease by using inactivated toxic compounds that cause illness rather than the micro-organism?
  15. 28. An infectious disease that occurs primarily in horses, mules, and donkeys
  16. 29. A fungus and a very small amount of it lives in your mouth and intestines
  17. 30. An infection caused by the bacterium Bacillus anthracis
  18. 31. What type of staphylococcus bacteria most commonly causes skin infection?
Down
  1. 1. What rod-shaped bacteria, closely related to Salmonella, causes diarrheal disease?
  2. 3. Which neurotoxic protein causes severe flaccid paralytic disease in humans, however it is also used commercially in medicine, cosmetics, and research?
  3. 5. What do you call an energy-dependent mechanism responsible for moving compounds (i.e. neurotransmitters, toxic substances, and antibiotics) out of the cell?
  4. 6. A member of the family Paramyxoviridae, genus Henipavirus...abbreviated NiV
  5. 7. Genus of Gram-negative bacteria, named after David Bruce
  6. 8. What is the term for a type of antimicrobial drug to prevent infection?
  7. 9. a self-contained integrated device, which is capable of providing specific quantitative or semi-quantitative analytical information using a biological recognition element
  8. 13. coli Which opportunistic bacteria are an important part of a healthy human intestinal tract, but also can cause disease by making a toxin called Shiga toxin?
  9. 14. The virus causes a haemorrhagic fever with high mortality rates in pigs
  10. 15. A disease caused by infection with Coxiella burnetii
  11. 20. A serious infectious disease caused by the intracellular bacterium Francisella tularensis
  12. 23. What is the term that best describes a patient that is a carrier for a disease or infection, but experiences no symptoms?
  13. 26. Gram-positive coccal bacterium that is a member of the Firmicutes, and is frequently found in the nose, respiratory tract, and on the skin