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- 4. infectious disease caused by the hepatitis B virus which affects the liver. It can cause both acute and chronic infections.
- 8. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus is a bacterium responsible for several difficult-to-treat infections in humans.
- 9. are bacteria found in the environment, foods, and intestines of people and animals.
- 12. large genus of lactic acid bacteria of the phylum Firmicutes.
- 14. A bacterium that occurs widely in nature and is a cause of botulism; its six main types, A to F, are characterized by antigenically distinct but pharmacologically similar, very potent neurotoxins.
- 15. viral disease that causes acute inflammation of the brain in humans and other warm-blooded animals.
- 17. diploid fungus that grows both as yeast and filamentous cells and a causal agent of opportunistic oral and genital infections in humans and candidal onychomycosis, an infection of the nail plate.
- 18. one of the most common causes of foodborne illness in the United States.
- 22. an infectious disease caused by bacteria of the Borrelia type. The most common sign of infection is an expanding area of redness, known as erythema migrans, that begins at the site of a tick bite about a week after it has occurred.
- 24. colitis (inflammation of the large intestine) resulting from infection with Clostridium difficile, a spore-forming bacterium.
- 25. sometimes known as the winter vomiting bug in the UK, is the most common cause of viral gastroenteritis in humans.
- 26. an acute disease caused by the bacterium Bacillus anthracis. Most forms of the disease are lethal, and it affects mostly animals.
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- 1. a genus of coccus gram-positive bacteria belonging to the phylum Firmicutes and the Lactobacillales order
- 2. any of several groups of RNA-containing viruses that are transmitted by bloodsucking arthropods, as ticks, fleas, or mosquitoes, and may cause encephalitis, yellow fever, or dengue fever.
- 3. a microscopic parasite that causes the diarrheal disease cryptosporidiosis. Both the parasite and the disease are commonly known as "Crypto."
- 4. DNA virus from the papillomavirus family that is capable of infecting humans.
- 5. an infectious disease caused by either of two virus variants, Variola major and Variola minor.
- 6. a viral hemorrhagic fever of humans and other primates caused by ebolaviruses.
- 7. an acute infectious disease of the liver caused by the hepatitis A virus. Many cases have few or no symptoms, especially in the young.
- 10. a genus of Gram-positive bacteria. Under the microscope, they appear round, and form in grape-like clusters.
- 11. common Gram-negative bacterium that can cause disease in plants and animals, including humans.
- 13. Gram-negative, rod-shaped coccobacillus, a facultative anaerobic bacterium that can infect humans and animals.
- 16. a genus of anaerobic flagellated protozoan parasites of the phylum Sarcomastigophora that colonise and reproduce in the small intestines of several vertebrates, causing giardiasis.
- 19. a widespread, infectious disease caused by various strains of mycobacteria, usually Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Tuberculosis typically attacks the lungs, but can also affect other parts of the body.
- 20. commonly known as "the flu", is an infectious disease caused by the influenza virus.
- 21. inflammatory condition of the lung affecting primarily the microscopic air sacs known as alveoli.
- 23. an infectious disease affecting primarily the liver, caused by the hepatitis C virus. The infection is often asymptomatic,