Alzheimer's Disease is not known to be caused by an infectious agent. The disease's cause is still being investigated. Even if it were caused by an infectious agent, it would not likely be used for bioterrorism because the disease process tends to be slow.
Prions are the smallest known infectious agents.
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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.
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No. The smallest infective particle is a protein called a prion.
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.
pathogenAn agent of infection is a pathogen.
A viroid is an infectious agent that consists of a small strand of RNA and that causes disease in plants.