Search results for "Infectious diseases" - New World Encyclopedia
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- ) is short for proteinaceous infectious particle that lacks nucleic ... Prion diseases are transmissible neurodegenerative conditions that ...17 KB (2,526 words) - 23:00, 30 November 2022
- and meningitis are distinctly different diseases, they often share signs ... avoid contact with those who have infectious diseases causing meningitis ...12 KB (1,747 words) - 18:32, 13 February 2024
- discovered the contagious nature of infectious diseases such as scabies, tuberculosis ... century, Ibn Khatima posited that infectious diseases are caused by microorganisms ...11 KB (1,616 words) - 04:37, 22 March 2024
- health problems, including infectious diseases and epidemics, environmental ... prevention and control (especially infectious diseases), environmental health ...17 KB (2,452 words) - 23:50, 3 December 2023
- of conferring increased resistance to an infectious disease by a means other ... processes for a vast number of diseases, beginning on a large scale ...11 KB (1,625 words) - 16:11, 27 July 2021
- but commonly is associated with acute infectious mononucleosis, as well ... and pregnancy.] The Journal of Infectious Diseases 147(6): 982–6. PMID ...25 KB (3,646 words) - 15:14, 15 April 2022
- Trachoma, also known as granular conjunctivitis, is an infectious ... in the world, and the leading cause of infectious blindness (GNNTD 2006 ...15 KB (2,194 words) - 17:42, 4 November 2022
- A number of commercially important diseases affect silkworms. Notable ... ** Infectious or viral flaccherie is initially a virus infection, ...16 KB (2,383 words) - 23:22, 7 October 2022
- diversion colitis, ischemic colitis, infectious colitis, fulminant colitis ... A well-known subtype of infectious colitis is pseudomembranous colitis ...11 KB (1,475 words) - 22:31, 7 January 2024
- Gonorrhea is a common, highly contagious, sexually transmitted diseases ... National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases: Gonorrhea Factsheet]. ...15 KB (2,205 words) - 11:56, 24 January 2023
- levels, long work hours, exposure to infectious diseases and hazardous substances ... Exposure to respiratory infectious diseases like tuberculosis (caused ...24 KB (3,245 words) - 17:08, 17 June 2020
- Neurology is a medical specialty dealing with disorders and diseases ... Some cases of nervous system infectious diseases are treated by infectious ...20 KB (2,815 words) - 04:35, 11 March 2023
- smuts are parasitic on plants and cause diseases of important agricultural ... Eventually, the host is infected by infectious hyphae. Teliospores form ...22 KB (3,202 words) - 04:39, 11 January 2023
- Scarlet fever or scarlatina is an acute, contagious infectious disease ... S. pyogenes is the cause of many important human diseases ranging ...11 KB (1,507 words) - 08:16, 17 September 2022
- is the name of a group of infectious diseases caused by salmonella ... == Salmonella-associated diseases == Salmonellosis Disease-causing ...11 KB (1,577 words) - 01:52, 23 December 2022
- Many diseases can alter function in the enteric nervous systems. Among the most important are diabetic autonomic neuropathy (which results in ...10 KB (1,480 words) - 16:48, 27 March 2022
- in the case of impetigo. Some other diseases that can be caused by Group ... Untreated patients are most infectious for two to three weeks after ...14 KB (1,981 words) - 23:26, 21 October 2022
- nations struggle to battle infectious diseases nearly eradicated by DDT. of abating and eradicating" infectious diseases, all changed with ...21 KB (3,192 words) - 17:19, 16 April 2023
- achievements in combating various infectious diseases in Africa or in establishing ... 1928." Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases. 2 (3): 164-8. ...17 KB (2,515 words) - 15:47, 25 January 2023
- superior Christian faith. Old World diseases caused epidemics killing ... or kills many people; it must also be infectious. For example cancer is ...22 KB (3,244 words) - 14:30, 11 February 2022
- problems (failure of blood supply), infectious agents (bacteria, virus ... most often due to sexually transmitted diseases. Some ulcers are tied to ...10 KB (1,465 words) - 16:30, 11 November 2022
- As with polio, malaria, tuberculosis, and other diseases, the use ... Learned." The Journal of Infectious Diseases 181:S10-S22 ...12 KB (1,771 words) - 00:38, 26 August 2020
- for a number of human and animal diseases. The measles virus (MV) ... Measles is one of the world's most contagious diseases—about ...18 KB (2,539 words) - 09:34, 10 March 2023
- == Diseases and diagnostic tools == [[Image:Sicklecells.jpg|frame|right ... There are a number of blood diseases involving the red blood cells ...16 KB (2,383 words) - 02:30, 8 December 2022
- A virus is a unit of infectious genetic material smaller than any ... in its shortened form: phage. Human diseases caused by viral infection ...32 KB (4,856 words) - 19:56, 27 March 2020
- The Jacobean era refers to a period in English and Scottish history that coincides with the reign of King James I (1603-1625). The Jacobean era ...11 KB (1,631 words) - 08:05, 18 March 2024
- and cellular debris as well as attack infectious agents (pathogens) and ... ==Blood-related diseases and disorders== Medical terms related to blood ...16 KB (2,426 words) - 18:13, 31 October 2023
- organism. Thus, protozoan and metazoan infectious agents are classified as ... For humans, parasitic diseases are largely preventable. Many foodborne ...17 KB (2,521 words) - 07:50, 18 November 2022
- —of which Cinnamon has both. Studies of infectious diseases such as HIV/AIDS, which has a closely related counterpart in cats, may also get a boost ...12 KB (1,817 words) - 07:07, 14 June 2023
- as having one of the more common infectious diseases with the same symptoms ... National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) said, "Individual ...36 KB (5,435 words) - 19:47, 16 October 2020
- *Vascular diseases (e.g., pulmonary edema, pulmonary embolism, pulmonary ... *Infectious, environmental and other diseases (e.g., pneumonia, tuberculosis ...13 KB (1,922 words) - 19:44, 16 April 2023
- meningoencephalitis, and other tick-borne diseases, and mosquito bites may ... Prevention, Division of Vector-borne Infectious Diseases. Retrieved August 4, 2008. ...16 KB (2,347 words) - 08:37, 15 January 2023
- such as species-specific parasites and diseases, as well as genetic controls ... president of a board "to study infectious diseases in Cuba paying particular ...14 KB (2,060 words) - 18:58, 13 February 2024
- and working tirelessly to find cures for diseases of animals (anthrax, chicken ... This discovery revolutionized work in infectious diseases, and Pasteur ...20 KB (3,100 words) - 22:52, 1 September 2023
- American epidemic,"] Journal of Infectious Diseases 170(2): 468-72 (PubMed ... of quarantine,"] Clinical Infectious Diseases 35: 1071-1072 (Infectious ...32 KB (4,728 words) - 17:16, 10 December 2023
- with mandatory registration of those with infectious diseases such as measles). In addition to her controversial work for birth control legislation ...14 KB (2,043 words) - 08:32, 10 March 2023
- for a number of human and animal diseases. The most typical presentation ... Highly infectious, prior to the development of a vaccine mumps was ...18 KB (2,588 words) - 18:21, 10 November 2022
- Typhus the name of any one of several similar diseases caused by particular ... tsutsugamushi) (Longe 2006). These diseases are somewhat similar, but ...23 KB (3,359 words) - 11:25, 18 April 2023
- to the prevention and treatment of many diseases, especially cancer, heart ... stratification can lead to the many diseases associated with the SES ...21 KB (3,080 words) - 15:09, 25 January 2023
- is classically one of the childhood infectious diseases caught and survived ... *[https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/4017-chickenpox Chickenpox ...16 KB (2,365 words) - 15:24, 10 December 2023
- consuming pests that are vectors of human diseases. They do produce disagreeable ... US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), is the first ...21 KB (3,077 words) - 22:18, 7 January 2024
- Ticks are important vectors of a number of diseases, including Lyme ... as vectors of human disease, both infectious and toxic (Edlow 2005). ...25 KB (3,763 words) - 17:14, 18 April 2023
- about human rabies and its prevention.] Infectious Diseases in Clinical Practice 9: 202-207. Retrieved October 19, 2008. * Goswami, A. 1999. ...11 KB (1,650 words) - 17:27, 9 November 2022
- of the least contagious of all bacterial diseases, the fear of physical disfigurement ... Leprosy or Hansen's disease is a chronic infectious disease caused ...31 KB (4,435 words) - 21:58, 25 October 2022
- referred to as plague, is a deadly infectious disease, which is caused ... is an epidemic (an outbreak of an infectious disease) that spreads across ...29 KB (4,475 words) - 16:51, 22 November 2023
- or azithromycin) shortens the infectious period but does not generally ... pdf Vaccine-preventable diseases]. International Bank for ...20 KB (2,804 words) - 18:43, 4 May 2023
- health issues, including multiple chronic diseases. Consequently, a primary ... greater risk of chronic non-communicable diseases, rapidly increasing demand ...26 KB (3,556 words) - 15:09, 25 January 2023
- Hotez, and S. Katz, Krugman's Infectious Diseases of Children (St. Louis ... in many countries.Committee on Infectious Diseases, American Academy ...72 KB (10,129 words) - 16:53, 27 December 2023
- in the United States suffer from allergic diseases. Allergies are the sixth ... approach to treatment and prevention of infectious disease has been used in ...22 KB (3,374 words) - 00:41, 9 January 2023
- Diseases Society) || IDSA (The Infectious Diseases Society of America) ... the treatment of Lyme disease. The Infectious Diseases Society of America ...45 KB (6,567 words) - 16:55, 21 December 2023
