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Ebola virus

an exceptionally virulent hemorrhaic virus with a high mortality rate first recognized in an outbreak on the Ebola river in africa...

any of several dozen DNA containing virus of the family Herpetoviridae including among them such human disease causing agents as Herpes simplex virus causing oral and genital herpes varicella zoster virus Herpes zoster virus causing shingles and chickenpox varicella Epstein Barr virus EB virus causing infectious mononucleosis and Cytomegalovirus...

Herpes simplex

either of two forms of herpesvirus infection distinguished as being caused by herpes simplex virus type 1 HSV 1 which causes mostly sores and eruptions around the mouth cold sores and fever blisters and at other points above the waist and herpes simplex virus type 2 HSV 2 causing genital herpes HSV 1 is also known in some cases to cause genital herpes infections...

Verbarrubella

An acute but mild viral infection characterized by a dusky red cutaneous eruption resembling that of measles but attended by only mild respiratory problems or fever called also German measles The infective virus is called Rubella virus or Rubivirus If contracted by a woman during the first several months of pregnancy rubella may cause serious abnormalities in the fetus...

bacteriophage

a virus which infects bacteria also colloquially called phage in laboratory jargon...

Bacterium

A microscopic single celled organism having no distinguishable nucleus belonging to the kingdom Monera Bacteria have varying shapes usually taking the form of a jointed rodlike filament or a small sphere but also in certain cases having a branched form Bacteria are destitute of chlorophyll but in those members of the phylum Cyanophyta the blue green algae other light absorbing pigments are present They are the smallest of microscopic organisms which have their own metabolic processes carried on within cell membranes viruses being smaller but not capable of living freely The bacteria are very widely diffused in nature and multiply with marvelous rapidity both by fission and by spores Bacteria may require oxygen for their energy producing metabolism and these are called aerobes or may multiply in the absence of oxygen these forms being anaerobes Certain species are active agents in fermentation while others appear to be the cause of certain infectious diseases The branch of science with ...

BW

biological warfare the use of bacteria or viruses or toxins to destroy men and animals or food...

Contagious

Communicable by contact by a virus or by a bodily exhalation catching as a contagious disease...

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