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- Amino acid [r]: Biochemical with an amino group, a carboxyl group, a hydrogen atom, and a side chain bonded to a central carbon. [e]
- Ataxia [r]: Impairment of the ability to perform smoothly coordinated voluntary movements (National Library of Medicine). [e]
- Bovine spongiform encepalopathy [r]: A transmissible spongiform encephalopathy of cattle associated with abnormal prion proteins in the brain. Affected animals develop excitability and salivation followed by ataxia. This disorder has been associated with consumption of scrapie infected ruminant derived protein. This condition may be transmitted to humans, where it is referred to as variant or new variant Creuzfeldt-Jakob syndrome. National Library of Medicine [e]
- Brain [r]: The core unit of a central nervous system. [e]
- Centers for Disease Control [r]: A major center of epidemiologic research and clinical support in epidemics, considered a world resource although part of the United States Public Health Service, located in Atlanta, Georgia, USA [e]
- Digital object identifier [r]: Unique label for a computer readable object that can be found on the internet, usually used in academic journals. [e]
- Eukaryota [r]: is a domain formed by all living beings, from unicellular to very complex individuals with many different types of cells carrying particular functions, that are always constituted by cells where there is a nucleus, with various organelles, enclosed by a membrane that separates its content from the surrounding cytoplasm. [e]
- Fungus [r]: A eukaryotic organism, classified into the kingdom Fungi, that is heterotrophic and digest their food externally, and may be a yeast, mold, or mushroom. [e]
- Gene [r]: The functional unit of heredity. [e]
- Infectious Diseases (human) [r]: Clinically evident disease resulting from the presence of pathogenic microbial agents, including pathogenic viruses, pathogenic bacteria, fungi, protozoa, multicellular parasites, and aberrant proteins known as prions. [e]
- Mammal [r]: A warm-blooded animal with a backbone which also has hair, and produces milk to feeds its young. [e]
- Mutation [r]: Changes to the DNA sequence that cause new genetic variation. [e]
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine [r]: Award conferred once a year by the Swedish Karolinska Institute, for physiology or medicine, since 1901. [e]
- U.S. intelligence analysis of patterns of infectious diseases and impacts [r]: The United States intelligence community model for the spread and world impact of infectious disease [e]
- Ultraviolet [r]: The part of the electromagnetic spectrum between the visible light and X-ray regions [e]
- Virology [r]: The study of viruses, sometimes included in the field of microbiology. [e]
- Virus (biology) [r]: A microscopic particle that can infect the cells of a biological organism and cannot reproduce without the assistance of the cells it infects. [e]
