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Parent topics
- Infectious disease [r]: In broad terms, diseases caused by living organisms; also a subspecialty of internal medicine concerned with the treatment of such diseases [e]
- Weapons of mass destruction [r]: Add brief definition or description
Subtopics
- Biological Weapons and Toxins Convention [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Chemical Weapons Convention [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Select Agent Program [r]: Pathogens or biological toxins which have been declared by the US Department of Health and Human Services or by the US Department of Agriculture to have the potential to pose a severe threat to public health and safety. [e]
- CDC Bioterrorism Agents-Disease list [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Aum Shinrikyo [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Biopreparat [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Centrifuge [r]: A device which separates particles or droplets suspended in a liquid based on their relative densities,using centrifugal force generated by spinning the sample rapidly around a fixed axis. [e]
- Chemical corps [r]: A branch of military service concerned with detection and decontamination of chemical, biological and radiological agents; smoke generation; and, in the past, offensive chemical warfare and biological warfare [e]
- Counterproliferation [r]: The set of activities that detect and monitor the threat of weapons of special concern against one's own nation and one's allies. [e]
- Decontamination [r]: The efforts to safeguard property and people that have been exposed to chemical, nuclear, or biological agents. [e]
- Dual-use [r]: Materials or equipment capable of being used either in civilian applications, or for military applications subject to counterproliferation controls, or for other sensitive uses such as the drug trade [e]
- Lyophilizer [r]: Commonly called a freeze-dryer, a method of preserving, with high quality, foods, sensitive chemicals, and even living cells, by chilling them to cryogenic temperatures and then applying vacuum such that the frozen water sublimes in place, not disrupting the structure of the frozen material [e]