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Lassa virus
The deadly cause of Lassa fever. Lassa virus is a virulent and highly transmissible RNA virus that belongs to the arenavirus group. Lassa virus was discovered in 1969 by a team led by Dr. Jordi Casals-Ariet. See also: Lassa fever; and…
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Show more- Chest X-ray Chest X-ray: Commonly used to detect abnormalities in the lungs, but can also detect abnormalities in the…
- Syndrome, kinky hair See: Menkes syndrome
- CCD (Central core disease of muscle) One of the conditions that produces 'floppy baby' syndrome. CCD causes hypotonia (floppiness) in the newborn…
- Drug, ACE-inhibitor A drug that inhibits ACE (angiotensin converting enzyme) which is important to the formation of angiotensin…
- Hypertension, white coat A transient increase in blood pressure (hypertension) triggered by the sight of medical personnel in white…
- Tsutsugamushi disease A mite-borne infectious disease caused by a microorganism, Rickettsia tsutsugamushi, characteristically with…
- Growth, normal See: Normal growth
- Urea breath test (UBT) The urea breath test (UBT) is a procedure for diagnosing the presence of a bacterium, Helicobacter pylori (H…
- Fusospirillary gingivitis This is trench mouth, a progressive painful infection with ulceration, swelling and sloughing off of dead…
- DNA, coding A sequence of DNA that codes for protein. Coding DNA sequences are separated by long regions of DNA called…
- Intrafallopian A term meaning 'within the fallopian tube.' There are two fallopian tubes in female mammals, including human…
- Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report Known for short as MMWR, this is a key weekly scientific publication prepared and published by the US Centers…