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infectious agent
Known as:
Infectious Agents
, Infective Agent
, agents infectious
Any organism, such as a virus, parasite, or bacterium, that is capable of invading body tissues and multiplying.
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Review
2017
Review
2017
Pathogenic human coronavirus infections: causes and consequences of cytokine storm and immunopathology
Rudragouda Channappanavar
,
S. Perlman
Seminars in Immunopathology
2017
Corpus ID: 4419231
Human coronaviruses (hCoVs) can be divided into low pathogenic and highly pathogenic coronaviruses. The low pathogenic CoVs…
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Review
2012
Review
2012
Global burden of cancers attributable to infections in 2008: a review and synthetic analysis.
Catherine de Martel
,
J. Ferlay
,
+4 authors
M. Plummer
The Lancet Oncology
2012
Corpus ID: 6647979
Review
2007
Review
2007
Free radicals and antioxidants in normal physiological functions and human disease.
M. Valko
,
D. Leibfritz
,
J. Moncol’
,
M. Cronin
,
M. Mazúr
,
J. Telser
International Journal of Biochemistry and Cell…
2007
Corpus ID: 7917282
Review
2006
Review
2006
The Molecular Biology of Coronaviruses
P. Masters
Advances in Virus Research
2006
Corpus ID: 920895
Review
2001
Review
2001
Viral vectors for gene therapy: the art of turning infectious agents into vehicles of therapeutics
M. Kay
,
J. Glorioso
,
L. Naldini
Nature Network Boston
2001
Corpus ID: 15006207
Considered by some to be among the simpler forms of life, viruses represent highly evolved natural vectors for the transfer of…
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Highly Cited
1997
Highly Cited
1997
Heterogeneities in the transmission of infectious agents: implications for the design of control programs.
M. Woolhouse
,
C. Dye
,
+10 authors
R. Anderson
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences…
1997
Corpus ID: 31530305
From an analysis of the distributions of measures of transmission rates among hosts, we identify an empirical relationship…
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Review
1993
Review
1993
Seeding “one-dimensional crystallization” of amyloid: A pathogenic mechanism in Alzheimer's disease and scrapie?
J. Jarrett
,
P. Lansbury
Cell
1993
Corpus ID: 11109255
Highly Cited
1993
Highly Cited
1993
Mice devoid of PrP are resistant to scrapie
H. Büeler
,
A. Aguzzi
,
+4 authors
C. Weissmann
Cell
1993
Corpus ID: 42058842
Highly Cited
1989
Highly Cited
1989
Isolation of a cDNA clone derived from a blood-borne non-A, non-B viral hepatitis genome.
Q. Choo
,
G. Kuo
,
A. Weiner
,
L. Overby
,
D. Bradley
,
M. Houghton
Science
1989
Corpus ID: 2746009
A random-primed complementary DNA library was constructed from plasma containing the uncharacterized non-A, non-B hepatitis…
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Highly Cited
1975
Highly Cited
1975
Manual of clinical microbiology
P. Murray
,
E. Baron
,
J. Jorgensen
,
M. Landry
,
M. Pfaller
1975
Corpus ID: 260450090
The 11th edition of the Manual of Clinical Microbiology continues to set the standard for state-of-the-science laboratory…
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