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An acute gastrointestinal or neurologic disorder caused by bacteria or their toxic products, by viruses, or by harmful chemicals in foods.
Industry:Science
An acute infection of the tracheobronchial tree caused by <i>Bordetella pertussis</i>, a bacteria species exclusive to infected humans. The disease (also known as pertussis) follows a prolonged course beginning with a runny nose, and finally develops into violent coughing, followed by a slow period of recovery. The coughing stage can last 2–4 weeks, with a whooping sound created by an exhausted individual rapidly breathing in through a narrowed glottis after a series of wrenching coughs. The classical disease occurs in children 1–5 years of age, but in immunized populations infants are at greatest risk and adults with attenuated (and unrecognized) disease constitute a major source of transmission to others.
Industry:Science
An acute infectious disease characterized by recurring fever. It is caused by spirochetes of the genus <i>Borrelia</i> and transmitted by the body louse (<i>Pediculus humanus humanus</i>) and by ticks of the genus <i>Ornithodoros</i>.
Industry:Science
An acute infectious disease of humans caused by <i>Corynebacterium diphtheriae</i>. Classically, the disease is characterized by low-grade fever, sore throat, and a pseudomembrane covering the tonsils and pharynx. Complications such as inflammation of the heart, paralysis, and even death may occur due to exotoxins elaborated by toxigenic strains of the bacteria.
Industry:Science
An acute infectious disorder characterized by nasal obstruction and discharge that may be accompanied by sneezing, sore throat, headache, malaise, cough, and fever. The disorder involves all human populations, age groups, and geographic regions; it is more common in winter than in summer in temperate climates. Most people in the United States experience at least one disabling cold (causing loss of time from work or school or a physician visit) per year. Frequencies are highest in children and are reduced with increasing age.
Industry:Science
An acute infectious viral disease characterized by severe systemic involvement and a single crop of skin lesions that proceeds through macular, papular, vesicular, and pustular stages. Smallpox is caused by variola virus, a brick-shaped, deoxyribonucleic acid–containing member of the Poxviridae family. Strains of variola virus are indistinguishable antigenically, but have differed in the clinical severity of the disease caused. From at least 1157 <small>B.C.</small>, when the disease probably killed the Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses V, hundreds of millions of cases and millions of deaths due to smallpox occurred throughout the world. On October 26, 1977, Ali Maow Maalin, a cook from Merca, Somalia, had onset of the smallpox rash; he was the last patient to contract the disease through natural transmission, although a laboratory outbreak of smallpox occurred in the United Kingdom in 1978. Following a 13-year worldwide campaign coordinated by the World Health Organization (WHO), smallpox was declared eradicated by the World Health Assembly in May 1980. Smallpox is the first human disease to be eradicated.
Industry:Science
An acute infectious viral disease which in its serious form affects the central nervous system and, by destruction of motor neurons in the spinal cord, produces flaccid paralysis. However, about 99% of infections are either inapparent or very mild.
Industry:Science
An acute or chronic infection of the epidermis, caused by the bacterium <i>Dermatophilus congolensis</i>, which results in an oozing dermatitis with scab formation. Streptothricosis includes dermatophilosis, mycotic dermatitis, lumpy wool, strawberry foot-rot, and cutaneous streptothricosis, diseases having a worldwide distribution and affecting a wide variety of species, including humans.
Industry:Science
An acute or chronic inflammatory disease of the lungs. More specifically when inflammation is caused by an infectious agent, the condition is called pneumonia; and when the inflammatory process in the lung is not related to an infectious organism, it is called pneumonitis.
Industry:Science
An acute or subacute, contagious viral disease of ruminants and swine, manifested by high fever, lachrymal discharge, profuse diarrhea, erosion of the epithelium of the mouth and of the digestive tract, and high mortality.
Industry:Science
