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impetigo	an infectious skin disease, esp. among children, marked by pustules that erupt and form thick crusts, esp. on the face.
infective	able or likely to cause infection; infectious.
isolate	to separate (an infectious person) from other people. [1/3 definitions]
isolation	the complete separation of an infectious person from other people, or the state of being thus separated. [1/3 definitions]
malaria	an infectious disease transmitted by mosquitoes and marked by recurring attacks of chills, fever, and sweating.
mononucleosis	an infectious disease characterized by a swollen spleen and lymph nodes, and an increase in the proportion of mononuclear leukocytes in the circulatory blood. [1/2 definitions]
multidrug resistance	the reduction in effectiveness of more than one drug in curing an infectious disease or cancer. Drug resistance typically develops when pathogenic cells or cancerous cells evolve the ability to tolerate drugs used to kill them.
mumps	(used with a sing. or pl. verb) an infectious disease, usu. affecting children, that causes inflammation of the salivary glands and sometimes of the reproductive organs.
murrain	any of various infectious diseases of cattle, such anthrax.
noninfectious	combined form of infectious.
pertussis	an acute infectious respiratory disease particularly serious in children, marked by intense spasms of coughing and sometimes accompanied by a high-pitched sound as air in inhaled between coughs; whooping cough.
pestiferous	bringing, bearing, or breeding infectious disease; pestilential. [1/2 definitions]
pip²	an infectious disease of fowl and other birds that causes an accumulation of mucus in the throat.
prion	any infectious agent composed of misfolded protein, such as the misfolded protein that causes "mad cow disease."
rabies	an infectious viral disease of mammals usu. transmitted by the bite of an infected animal, causing inflammation of the central nervous system that results in violent and irrational behavior followed by death if not treated.
ratbite fever	either of two infectious diseases transmitted by the bites of rats or other animals, one characterized by inflammation, back and joint pains, headache, and vomiting, and the other by a purplish rash, recurrent fever, and ulceration near the bite.
rheumatic fever	a severe infectious disease whose symptoms include fever and inflammation of the joints and parts of the heart, usu. occurring in children.
scrub typhus	an acute infectious disease of Asia that is transmitted by a mite larva and characterized by fever, rash, skin lesions, and painful swelling of the lymph glands.
sleeping sickness	a usu. fatal infectious disease found in tropical Africa, characterized by fever, weakness, and tremors, and transmitted by tsetse flies. [1/2 definitions]
spotted fever	any of various infectious diseases transmitted by ticks and characterized by skin eruptions, esp. Rocky Mountain spotted fever. (See tick fever.) [1/2 definitions]
tetanus	an often fatal infectious disease involving rigidness and spasms of the muscles, esp. in the neck and lower jaw, and caused by a bacterium that usu. gains entry to the body through a wound. [1/2 definitions]

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