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| x Yersinia pestis |
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Organism Classification | Bubonic plague |
Yersinia pestis (formerly Pasteurella pestis) is a Gram-negative rod-shaped bacterium belonging to the family Enterobacteriaceae. It is a facultative anaerobe that can infect humans and other animals.
Human Y. pestis infection takes three main forms...
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| x Varicella zoster virus |
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Disease or medical condition | Chickenpox |
Varicella zoster virus (VZV) is one of eight herpes viruses known to infect humans (and other vertebrates). It commonly causes chicken-pox in children and both shingles and postherpetic neuralgia in adults.
Varicella zoster virus is known by many...
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| x Trypanosoma cruzi |
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Organism Classification | Chagas disease |
Trypanosoma cruzi is a species of parasitic euglenoid trypanosomes. The species causes the trypanosomiasis diseases in humans and animals in America. Transmission occurs when the reduviid bug deposits feces on the skin surface and subsequently bites...
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| x Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon |
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Chemical Compound | Soot wart |
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are chemical compounds that consist of fused aromatic rings and do not contain heteroatoms or carry substituents. PAHs occur in oil, coal, and tar deposits, and are produced as byproducts of fuel burning ...
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| x Marburg virus |
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The Marburg virus is the causative agent of Marburg haemorrhagic fever (also known as green monkey disease). Both the disease and virus are related to Ebola and originate in Uganda and Eastern Congo. The zoonosis is of unknown origin, but Egyptian...
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| x Hepatitis C virus |
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Organism Classification |
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a small (55-65 nm in size), enveloped, positive sense single strand RNA virus in the family Flaviviridae. Although Hepatitis A virus, Hepatitis B virus, and Hepatitis C virus have similar names (because they all cause...
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| x Staphylococcus |
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Organism Classification | Staph infection |
Staphylococcus (from the Greek: σταφυλή, staphylē, "bunch of grapes" and κόκκος, kókkos, "granule") is a genus of Gram-positive bacteria. Under the microscope they appear round (cocci), and form in grape-like clusters.
The Staphylococcus genus...
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| x HIV |
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Organism Classification | AIDS |
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a lentivirus (a member of the retrovirus family) that can lead to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), a condition in humans in which the immune system begins to fail, leading to life-threatening...
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| Sexually transmitted disease | ||||
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| x Rhinovirus |
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Organism Classification | Common cold |
Rhinovirus (from the Greek rhin-, which means "nose") is a genus of the Picornaviridae family of viruses. Rhinoviruses are the most common viral infective agents in humans, and a causative agent of the common cold. There are over 110 serologic virus...
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| x Hantavirus |
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Organism Classification | Viral hemorrhagic fever |
Hantaviruses belong to the Bunyaviridae family of viruses. There Bunyaviridae family is divided into 5 genera: Orthobunyavirus, Nairovirus, Phlebovirus, Tospovirus, and Hantavirus. Like all members of this family, hantaviruses have genomes comprised...
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| x Plasmodium |
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Organism Classification | Malaria |
Plasmodium is a genus of parasitic protozoa. Infection with this genus is known as malaria. The genus Plasmodium was created in 1885 by Marchiafava and Celli. Currently over 200 species in this genus are recognized and new species continue to be...
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| x Prion |
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Protein | Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease |
A prion (IPA: /ˈpriːɒn/listen (help·info)) is thought to be an infectious agent that, according to current scientific consensus, is comprised entirely of a propagated, mis-folded protein. The mis-folded form of the prion protein has been implicated...
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| Award-Winning Work | Bovine spongiform encephalopathy | |||
| x Herpes simplex virus |
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Herpes simplex virus 1 and 2 (HSV-1 and HSV-2) are two species of the herpes virus family, Herpesviridae, which cause infections in humans. Eight members of herpesviridae infect humans to cause a variety of illnesses including cold sores, chickenpox...
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| x Avian leucosis virus | Organism Classification |
Avian leukosis virus is a species of retrovirus that causes disease in chickens; experimentally it can infect other species of birds and mammals. Different forms of the disease exist, including lymphoblastic, erythroblastic, and osteopetrotic.
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| x Coxsackie A virus | Disease or medical condition |
Coxsackie (virus) is a cytolytic virus of the Picornaviridae family, an enterovirus (a group containing the polioviruses, coxsackieviruses, and echoviruses). There are 61 non-polio enteroviruses that can cause disease in humans, of which 23 are...
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| x West Nile virus |
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Organism Classification | Guillain-Barré syndrome |
West Nile virus (or WNV) is a virus of the family Flaviviridae. Part of the Japanese encephalitis (JE) antigenic complex of viruses, it is found in both tropical and temperate regions. It mainly infects birds, but is known to infect humans, horses,...
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| x SV40 |
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Organism Classification |
SV40 is an abbreviation for Simian vacuolating virus 40 or Simian virus 40, a polyomavirus that is found in both monkeys and humans. Like other polyomaviruses, SV40 is a DNA virus that has the potential to cause tumors, but most often persists as a...
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| x Poliovirus |
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Organism Classification | Poliomyelitis |
Poliovirus, the causative agent of poliomyelitis, is a human enterovirus and member of the family of Picornaviridae. Poliovirus is composed of a RNA genome and a protein capsid. The genome is single-stranded positive-sense RNA genome that is about...
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| x JC virus | Organism Classification |
The JC virus or John Cunningham virus (JCV) is a type of human polyomavirus (formerly known as papovavirus) and is genetically similar to BK virus and SV40. It was discovered in 1971 and named after the two initials of a patient with progressive...
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| x Reoviridae |
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Reoviridae is a family of viruses that can affect the gastrointestinal system (such as Rotavirus) and respiratory tract. Viruses in the family Reoviridae have genomes consisting of segmented, double-stranded RNA (dsRNA). The name "Reoviridae" is...
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| x Herpesviridae |
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Disease or medical condition |
The Herpesviridae are a large family of DNA viruses that cause diseases in animals, including humans. The family name is derived from the Greek word herpein ("to creep"), referring to the latent, recurring infections typical of this group of...
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| x Coxsackie B4 virus |
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Disease or medical condition |
Coxsackie B4 virus is a virus which can trigger an autoimmune reaction which results in destruction of the insulin-producing beta cells of the pancreas, which is one of several different etiologies of diabetes mellitus.
An absolute deficiency of...
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| x Simian immunodeficiency virus | Organism Classification |
Simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) is a retrovirus that is found, in numerous strains, in primates; the specific strains infecting humans are HIV-1 and HIV-2, the viruses that cause AIDS.
The origin of HIV is now generally attributed to SIV from...
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| x Vesicular stomatitis virus |
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Disease or medical condition |
Vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) is a virus in the family Rhabdoviridae; the well-known Rabies virus belongs to the same family. VSV can infect insects and mammals. It has particular importance to farmers in certain regions of the world where it can...
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| x O'nyong'nyong virus | Disease or medical condition |
The O'nyong'nyong virus or O'nyong-nyong virus was a virus first isolated by the Uganda Virus Research Institute in Entebbe, Uganda in 1959. It is a togavirus (family Togaviridae), genus Alphavirus and is closely related to Chikungunya and Igbo Ora...
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| x Rice dwarf virus | Organism Classification |
Rice dwarf virus (RDV) is a plant pathogenic virus of the family Reoviridae.
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| x Human respiratory syncytial virus |
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Disease or medical condition |
Human respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a negative-sense, single-stranded RNA virus of the family Paramyxoviridae, which includes common respiratory viruses such as those causing measles and mumps. RSV is a member of the paramyxovirus subfamily...
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| x Influenzavirus C | Organism Classification |
Influenzavirus C is a genus in the virus family Orthomyxoviridae, which includes those viruses which cause influenza. The only species in this genus is called "Influenza C virus".
Influenza C viruses are known to infect humans and pigs, giving them...
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| x Molluscum contagiosum virus |
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Organism Classification |
The Molluscum contagiosum virus or MCV is a species of virus in the poxvirus family, which causes the disease Molluscum contagiosum in humans. Virions have a complex structure and is consistent with the structure of the poxvirus family: an envelope,...
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| x Adeno-associated virus |
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Organism Classification |
Adeno-associated virus (AAV) is a small virus which infects humans and some other primate species. AAV is not currently known to cause disease and consequently the virus causes a very mild immune response. AAV can infect both dividing and non...
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| x Alpharetrovirus | Organism Classification |
An alpharetrovirus is a genus of the retroviridae family. It has type C morphology. Members can cause sarcomas, other tumors, and anaemia of wild and domestic birds and also affect rats.
Species include the Rous sarcoma virus, avian leukosis virus...
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| x Tobacco necrosis virus | Organism Classification |
Tobacco necrosis virus (TNV) is a plant pathogenic virus of the family Tombusviridae.
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| x Brome mosaic virus | Disease or medical condition |
Brome mosaic virus (BMV) is a small (27 nm, 86S), positive-stranded, icosahedral RNA plant virus belonging to the family Bromoviridae of the alphavirus-like superfamily.
BMV commonly infects Bromus inermis (see Bromus) and other grasses, can be...
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| x Tomato spotted wilt virus | Organism Classification |
The Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus (TSWV) is a type species of the Tospovirus genus which is a member of the Bunyaviridae family. TSWV is a plant virus that has a broad host range and can infect over 800 different plant species from 82 different families...
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| x Impatiens necrotic spot virus |
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Organism Classification |
Impatiens necrotic spot virus (INSV) is a plant pathogenic virus of the family Bunyaviridae. It was originally believed to be another strain of Tomato spotted wilt virus but genetic investigations reveleaed them to be separate viruses. It has a...
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| x Tobacco ringspot virus | Organism Classification |
Tobacco ringspot virus (TRSV) is a plant pathogenic virus.
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| x Tobacco streak virus | Organism Classification |
Tobacco streak virus (TSV) is a plant pathogenic virus of the family Bromoviridae.
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| x Drosophila C virus | Organism Classification |
Drosophila C virus belongs to the genus Cripavirus and was previously thought to be a member of the virus family Picornaviridae; it has since been classified as belonging to the Dicistroviridae. It is a single stranded positive sense RNA virus of...
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| x Shope papilloma virus |
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Organism Classification |
The cottontail rabbit papilloma virus (CRPV) or Shope papilloma virus is a type I virus under the Baltimore scheme, possessing a nonsegmented dsDNA genome. It infects rabbits, causing keratinous carcinomas, typically on or near the animal’s head....
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| x Ross River virus | Organism Classification |
Ross River virus (RRV) is a small encapsulated single-strand RNA alphavirus endemic to Australia, Papua New Guinea and other islands in the South Pacific. It is responsible for a type of mosquito-borne non-lethal but debilitating tropical disease...
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| x Sin Nombre virus |
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Organism Classification |
The Sin Nombre virus (literally "the nameless virus" in Spanish) (SNV) is the prototypical etiologic agent of hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome (HCPS). It was first isolated from rodents collected near the home of one of the initial patients with...
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| x Rous sarcoma virus | Organism Classification |
Rous sarcoma virus is a retrovirus and is the first oncovirus to have been described: it causes sarcoma in chickens.
As with all retroviruses, it reverse transcribes its RNA genome into cDNA before integration into the host DNA.
RSV was discovered...
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| x Tobacco rattle virus | ||||