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Viruses are an infectious agent composed of a simple strand of RNA with no protein component.
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The scope and significance of communicable diseases is that they are all illnesses that are caused by some kind of infectious agent. Communicable diseases are also called infectious diseases (or transmissible diseases).
infectious1. Capable of causing infection.2. Caused by or capable of being transmitted by infection.3. Caused by a pathogenic microorganism or agent.4. Easily or readily communicated: an infectious laugh.Non-infectious diseases are those diseases that are not caused by a pathogen and cannot be shared from one person to another.
They are called Prion. This is the definition I fount at wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn: "an infectious protein particle similar to a virus but lacking nucleic acid; thought to be the agent responsible for scrapie and other degenerative diseases of the nervous system".
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A word used to describe "Infectious Agent" could be: Scary. Here is an example of it in a sentence: The scary, infectious agent stole my money.
Infectious disease in one that is spread by intimate contact with body fluids. Some of these are influenza, mononucleosis, and Chlamydia.
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It is clear that Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is caused by an infectious agent, but it is not yet clear what type of agent that is.
Special immunologic and serologic tests may also be used to help identify the infectious agent.
pathogenAn agent of infection is a pathogen.
Viruses are an infectious agent composed of a simple strand of RNA with no protein component.
A pathogen or infectious agent is a biological agent that causes disease or illness to its host.