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