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| SARS, respiratory infections |
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| cold sores, fever blisters |
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| polio, rhino, hepatitis A |
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| yellow fever, hepatitis C |
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| orthomyxoviruses (influenza) |
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| infantile gastroenteritis |
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| treponema pallidum, borrelia burgdorferi |
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| gram negative aerobic rods and cocci |
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| pseudomonas aeroginosa, legionella pneumophila, neisseria gonorrhea |
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| gram negative facultatively anearobic |
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| salmonella, shigella, klebsiella neumoniae, yersinia pestis, vibro cholerae, hemophilus influenzae, helicobacter pylori, |
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| rocky mountain spotted fever |
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| nongonococcal urethritis, pelvic inflamatory disease, trachoma |
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| primary atypical pneumonia |
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| boils, toxic shock syndrome |
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| gram-positive endospore forming rods and cocci |
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| bacillus anthracis, clostridium |
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| tetanus, botulism, gas gangrene |
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| gram positive irregular, nonsporing rods |
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| corynebacterium diptheriae |
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| corynebacterium diptheriae |
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| mycobacterium tuberculosis |
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| african sleeping sickness |
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| a technique using antibodies with fluorescent molecules covalently attached to observe the antigen in a microscopic specimen |
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| the flourescent molecule is attached directly to the antibody |
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| indirect immunoflouresence |
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| the molecule is attached to a secondary antibody that binds to the primary antibody |
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| anti-antibody antibodies that are raised in different species from the primary antibody |
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| the clumping of cells or latex beads due to cross-linking with antibodies that bind to antigens on their surfaces |
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| the agglutination of red blood cells |
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| enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) |
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| a test that uses an enzyme for detection. the enzyme catalyzes a reation in which a colorless substrate is converted to a colored product. The enxyme is attached to an antibody, either the primary antibody for direct ELISa or the secondary antibody for indirect ELISA |
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| a test for protein antigens that are spearated by size by SDS polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. the proteins are blotted onto a membrane and specific antigens are detected by binding an antibody with a detction moledule attached |
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| a technique used to detect antigens on the surface of cells (especially whit eblood cells) using antibodies with fluorescent tags |
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| incidence and prevalence of a disease |
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| refers to the new cases and total cases normalized to 100,000 people |
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| centers for disease control and prevention in atlanta |
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| the US center for epidemiological data |
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| World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland |
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| the world-wide organization for epidemiology |
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| peak rapidly versus propagated diseases |
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| many diseaseas that are new to medicine |
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| measles, mumps, and rubella (vaccine given to children) |
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| diptheria, pertussis, and tetanus a vaccine also given to children |
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| might be used as biological weapons for example vacillus anthracis |
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| fungal infections that are classified according to the site of infection as superficial, cutaneous, subcutaneous, or systemic |
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| usually occur only in imunocompromised people |
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| infectious protein partlce sthat cause progressive degeneration of the CNS |
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| biting arthropods suchas mosquitoes that transmit some diseases |
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| produce hybridoma cells, recognize a single epitope, flourescently-labeled MABs used diagnostically |
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| use of serum antibodies to detect and identify other molecules |
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| sudden, unexpected occurrence of disease, sually focal or in alimited segment of population |
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| sudden increase in frequency above expected number |
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| first case in an epidemic |
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| increase in disease occurence within large population over wide reagion |
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