Disease cause
This type is meant for human disease causes. Anything that causes a disease or medical condition can be a "disease cause". This includes, but is not limited to, types of bacteria, viruses, protozoa, fungi, and chemical compounds.
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| 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...
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| 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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| Trypanosoma cruzi |
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Organism Classification | Chagas disease |
Trypanosoma cruzi is a species of parasitic euglenoid trypanosome. 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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| Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon |
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Chemical Compound | Soot wart |
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are chemical compound that consist of fused aromatic rings and do not contain heteroatom or carry substituent . PAHs occur in oil, coal, and tar deposits, and are produced as byproducts of fuel burning ...
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| 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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| Hepatitis C virus |
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Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a small (50 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 liver...
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| Staphylococcus |
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Organism Classification | Staph infection |
Staphylococcus (in Greek σταφυλη staphyle means bunch of grapes and κοκκος coccos means 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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| 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 human in which the immune system begins to fail, leading to life-threatening...
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| 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 virus. 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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| Hantavirus |
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Organism Classification | Viral hemorrhagic fever |
Hantaviruses belong to the bunyaviridae family of virus. There are 7 genera within the bunyaviridae family: bunyavirus, phlebovirus, nairovirus, tospovirus, orthobunyavirus, unclassfied bunyavirus and hantavirus. Each is made up of 3 negative-sensed...
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| Plasmodium |
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Organism Classification | Malaria |
A plasmodium is also the macroscopic form of the protist known as a slime mould.
Plasmodium is a genus of parasitic protozoa. Infection with this genus is known as malaria. The parasite always has two hosts in its life cycle: a mosquito vector and...
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| Prion |
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Protein | Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease |
A prion — combination of the first two syllables of the words pr'oteinaceous and infectious ('-on by analogy to virion) — is a poorly-understood hypothetical infectious agent that, according to the "protein only" hypothesis, is composed entirely of...
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| Herpes simplex virus |
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| Avian leucosis virus | Organism Classification |
Avian leukosis virus is a species of retrovirus that causes disease in chicken; experimentally it can infect other species of birds and mammals. Different forms of the disease exist, including lymphoblast, erythroblastic, and osteopetrotic.
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| Coxsackie A virus | Disease or medical condition |
Coxsackie (virus) is a cytolytic virus of the Picornaviridae family, an enterovirus (a group containing the poliovirus, coxsackieviruses, and echovirus). There are 61 non-polio enteroviruses that can cause disease in humans, of which 23 are...
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| 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 bird, but is known to infect human, horse, dog...
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| SV40 |
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SV40 is an abbreviation for Simian vacuolating virus 40 or Simian virus 40, a polyomavirus that is found in both monkey and human. Like other polyomaviruses, SV40 is a DNA virus that has the potential to cause tumor, but most often persists as a...
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| 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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| 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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| Reoviridae |
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Reoviridae is a family of virus 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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| Herpesviridae |
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The Herpesviridae are a large family of DNA virus that cause diseases in animals, including humans. The family name is derived from the Greek word herpein ("to creep"), referring to the latent, re-occurring infection typical of this group of...
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| Coxsackie B4 virus |
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Coxsackie B4 virus is a virus which can trigger an autoimmune reaction which results in destruction of the insulin-producing beta cell of the pancreas, which is one of several different etiologies of diabetes mellitus.
An absolute deficiency of...
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| 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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| 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 insect and mammal. It has particular importance to farmers in certain regions of the world where it can...
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| 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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| Rice dwarf virus | Organism Classification |
Rice dwarf virus (RDV) is a plant pathogenic virus of the family Reoviridae.
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| Human respiratory syncytial virus |
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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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| Influenzavirus C | Organism Classification |
Influenzavirus C is a genus in the virus family Orthomyxoviridae, which includes those virus which cause influenza. The only species in this genus is called "Influenza C virus".
Influenza C viruses are known to infect human and pig, giving them...
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| Molluscum contagiosum virus |
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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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| Adeno-associated virus | 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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