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57342628d058e614000b6a0c
Infection
Serological methods are highly sensitive, specific and often extremely rapid tests used to identify microorganisms. These tests are based upon the ability of an antibody to bind specifically to an antigen. The antigen, usually a protein or carbohydrate made by an infectious agent, is bound by the antibody. This binding...
What methods are highly sensitive, specifc and rapid tests used to identify microorganisms?
{ "text": [ "Serological" ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }
57342628d058e614000b6a0d
Infection
Serological methods are highly sensitive, specific and often extremely rapid tests used to identify microorganisms. These tests are based upon the ability of an antibody to bind specifically to an antigen. The antigen, usually a protein or carbohydrate made by an infectious agent, is bound by the antibody. This binding...
What are serological tests based upon the ability of an antibody to do?
{ "text": [ "bind specifically to an antigen" ], "answer_start": [ 173 ] }
57342628d058e614000b6a0e
Infection
Serological methods are highly sensitive, specific and often extremely rapid tests used to identify microorganisms. These tests are based upon the ability of an antibody to bind specifically to an antigen. The antigen, usually a protein or carbohydrate made by an infectious agent, is bound by the antibody. This binding...
What is the antigen bound to by the antibody usually?
{ "text": [ "a protein or carbohydrate made by an infectious agent" ], "answer_start": [ 227 ] }
57342628d058e614000b6a0f
Infection
Serological methods are highly sensitive, specific and often extremely rapid tests used to identify microorganisms. These tests are based upon the ability of an antibody to bind specifically to an antigen. The antigen, usually a protein or carbohydrate made by an infectious agent, is bound by the antibody. This binding...
What does the binding set off that will result in something visibly obvious in various ways?
{ "text": [ "a chain of events" ], "answer_start": [ 335 ] }
57342628d058e614000b6a10
Infection
Serological methods are highly sensitive, specific and often extremely rapid tests used to identify microorganisms. These tests are based upon the ability of an antibody to bind specifically to an antigen. The antigen, usually a protein or carbohydrate made by an infectious agent, is bound by the antibody. This binding...
What is the causative agent of "strep throat"?
{ "text": [ "S. pyogenes" ], "answer_start": [ 558 ] }
5a83060be60761001a2eb30b
Infection
Serological methods are highly sensitive, specific and often extremely rapid tests used to identify microorganisms. These tests are based upon the ability of an antibody to bind specifically to an antigen. The antigen, usually a protein or carbohydrate made by an infectious agent, is bound by the antibody. This binding...
What methods are highly sensitive, general and slow tests used to identify microorganisms?
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5a83060be60761001a2eb30c
Infection
Serological methods are highly sensitive, specific and often extremely rapid tests used to identify microorganisms. These tests are based upon the ability of an antibody to bind specifically to an antigen. The antigen, usually a protein or carbohydrate made by an infectious agent, is bound by the antibody. This binding...
What are serological tests based upon the ability of an antibody to avoid?
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5a83060be60761001a2eb30d
Infection
Serological methods are highly sensitive, specific and often extremely rapid tests used to identify microorganisms. These tests are based upon the ability of an antibody to bind specifically to an antigen. The antigen, usually a protein or carbohydrate made by an infectious agent, is bound by the antibody. This binding...
What is the antigen bound to by the antibody usually not part of?
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5a83060be60761001a2eb30e
Infection
Serological methods are highly sensitive, specific and often extremely rapid tests used to identify microorganisms. These tests are based upon the ability of an antibody to bind specifically to an antigen. The antigen, usually a protein or carbohydrate made by an infectious agent, is bound by the antibody. This binding...
What does the binding set off that will result in something invisible in various ways?
{ "text": [], "answer_start": [] }
5a83060be60761001a2eb30f
Infection
Serological methods are highly sensitive, specific and often extremely rapid tests used to identify microorganisms. These tests are based upon the ability of an antibody to bind specifically to an antigen. The antigen, usually a protein or carbohydrate made by an infectious agent, is bound by the antibody. This binding...
What is the special agent of "strep throat"?
{ "text": [], "answer_start": [] }
57342720d058e614000b6a26
Infection
Complex serological techniques have been developed into what are known as Immunoassays. Immunoassays can use the basic antibody – antigen binding as the basis to produce an electro - magnetic or particle radiation signal, which can be detected by some form of instrumentation. Signal of unknowns can be compared to that ...
What are immunoassays?
{ "text": [ "Complex serological techniques" ], "answer_start": [ 0 ] }
57342720d058e614000b6a27
Infection
Complex serological techniques have been developed into what are known as Immunoassays. Immunoassays can use the basic antibody – antigen binding as the basis to produce an electro - magnetic or particle radiation signal, which can be detected by some form of instrumentation. Signal of unknowns can be compared to that ...
What type of signal do immunoassays produce?
{ "text": [ "electro - magnetic or particle radiation" ], "answer_start": [ 173 ] }
57342720d058e614000b6a28
Infection
Complex serological techniques have been developed into what are known as Immunoassays. Immunoassays can use the basic antibody – antigen binding as the basis to produce an electro - magnetic or particle radiation signal, which can be detected by some form of instrumentation. Signal of unknowns can be compared to that ...
What allows quantitation of the target antigen?
{ "text": [ "unknowns can be compared to that of standards" ], "answer_start": [ 287 ] }
57342720d058e614000b6a29
Infection
Complex serological techniques have been developed into what are known as Immunoassays. Immunoassays can use the basic antibody – antigen binding as the basis to produce an electro - magnetic or particle radiation signal, which can be detected by some form of instrumentation. Signal of unknowns can be compared to that ...
Immunoassays are able to detect what type of proteins?
{ "text": [ "generated by an infected organism in response to a foreign agent" ], "answer_start": [ 512 ] }
5a8306fae60761001a2eb315
Infection
Complex serological techniques have been developed into what are known as Immunoassays. Immunoassays can use the basic antibody – antigen binding as the basis to produce an electro - magnetic or particle radiation signal, which can be detected by some form of instrumentation. Signal of unknowns can be compared to that ...
What are immunoassays banned from being?
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5a8306fae60761001a2eb316
Infection
Complex serological techniques have been developed into what are known as Immunoassays. Immunoassays can use the basic antibody – antigen binding as the basis to produce an electro - magnetic or particle radiation signal, which can be detected by some form of instrumentation. Signal of unknowns can be compared to that ...
What type of signal do immunoassays absorb?
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5a8306fae60761001a2eb317
Infection
Complex serological techniques have been developed into what are known as Immunoassays. Immunoassays can use the basic antibody – antigen binding as the basis to produce an electro - magnetic or particle radiation signal, which can be detected by some form of instrumentation. Signal of unknowns can be compared to that ...
What stops quantitation of the target antigen?
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5a8306fae60761001a2eb318
Infection
Complex serological techniques have been developed into what are known as Immunoassays. Immunoassays can use the basic antibody – antigen binding as the basis to produce an electro - magnetic or particle radiation signal, which can be detected by some form of instrumentation. Signal of unknowns can be compared to that ...
What type of proteins are undetectable by Immunoassays?
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573427ac4776f419006619a5
Infection
Technologies based upon the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method will become nearly ubiquitous gold standards of diagnostics of the near future, for several reasons. First, the catalog of infectious agents has grown to the point that virtually all of the significant infectious agents of the human population have been...
What does the acronym PCR expand to?
{ "text": [ "polymerase chain reaction" ], "answer_start": [ 28 ] }
573427ac4776f419006619a6
Infection
Technologies based upon the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method will become nearly ubiquitous gold standards of diagnostics of the near future, for several reasons. First, the catalog of infectious agents has grown to the point that virtually all of the significant infectious agents of the human population have been...
What will be the ubiquitous gold standards of diagnostics in the near future?
{ "text": [ "PCR" ], "answer_start": [ 55 ] }
573427ac4776f419006619a7
Infection
Technologies based upon the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method will become nearly ubiquitous gold standards of diagnostics of the near future, for several reasons. First, the catalog of infectious agents has grown to the point that virtually all of the significant infectious agents of the human population have been...
What has the catalog of infectious agents grown to the point of?
{ "text": [ "virtually all of the significant infectious agents of the human population have been identified" ], "answer_start": [ 236 ] }
573427ac4776f419006619a8
Infection
Technologies based upon the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method will become nearly ubiquitous gold standards of diagnostics of the near future, for several reasons. First, the catalog of infectious agents has grown to the point that virtually all of the significant infectious agents of the human population have been...
What must an infectious agent do to cause disease?
{ "text": [ "grow within the human body" ], "answer_start": [ 366 ] }
573427ac4776f419006619a9
Infection
Technologies based upon the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method will become nearly ubiquitous gold standards of diagnostics of the near future, for several reasons. First, the catalog of infectious agents has grown to the point that virtually all of the significant infectious agents of the human population have been...
What are primers derived from the genomes of?
{ "text": [ "infectious agents" ], "answer_start": [ 698 ] }
5a8308fde60761001a2eb31d
Infection
Technologies based upon the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method will become nearly ubiquitous gold standards of diagnostics of the near future, for several reasons. First, the catalog of infectious agents has grown to the point that virtually all of the significant infectious agents of the human population have been...
What does the acronym PCR abbreviate to?
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5a8308fde60761001a2eb31e
Infection
Technologies based upon the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method will become nearly ubiquitous gold standards of diagnostics of the near future, for several reasons. First, the catalog of infectious agents has grown to the point that virtually all of the significant infectious agents of the human population have been...
What be the silver standards of diagnostics in the distant future?
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5a8308fde60761001a2eb31f
Infection
Technologies based upon the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method will become nearly ubiquitous gold standards of diagnostics of the near future, for several reasons. First, the catalog of infectious agents has grown to the point that virtually all of the significant infectious agents of the human population have been...
What has the catalog of infectious agents decreased to the point of?
{ "text": [], "answer_start": [] }
5a8308fde60761001a2eb320
Infection
Technologies based upon the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method will become nearly ubiquitous gold standards of diagnostics of the near future, for several reasons. First, the catalog of infectious agents has grown to the point that virtually all of the significant infectious agents of the human population have been...
What must an infectious agent prevent to cause disease?
{ "text": [], "answer_start": [] }
5a8308fde60761001a2eb321
Infection
Technologies based upon the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method will become nearly ubiquitous gold standards of diagnostics of the near future, for several reasons. First, the catalog of infectious agents has grown to the point that virtually all of the significant infectious agents of the human population have been...
What are primers excluded by gnomes?
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5734284ad058e614000b6a48
Infection
Thus, the technological ability to detect any infectious agent rapidly and specifically are currently available. The only remaining blockades to the use of PCR as a standard tool of diagnosis are in its cost and application, neither of which is insurmountable. The diagnosis of a few diseases will not benefit from the d...
What technological ability with regards to detection is currently available?
{ "text": [ "ability to detect any infectious agent" ], "answer_start": [ 24 ] }
5734284ad058e614000b6a49
Infection
Thus, the technological ability to detect any infectious agent rapidly and specifically are currently available. The only remaining blockades to the use of PCR as a standard tool of diagnosis are in its cost and application, neither of which is insurmountable. The diagnosis of a few diseases will not benefit from the d...
What are the remaining blockades to the use or PCR as a standard tool of diagnosis?
{ "text": [ "cost and application" ], "answer_start": [ 203 ] }
5734284ad058e614000b6a4a
Infection
Thus, the technological ability to detect any infectious agent rapidly and specifically are currently available. The only remaining blockades to the use of PCR as a standard tool of diagnosis are in its cost and application, neither of which is insurmountable. The diagnosis of a few diseases will not benefit from the d...
What are some diseases which won't benefit from PCR methods?
{ "text": [ "clostridial diseases" ], "answer_start": [ 367 ] }
5734284ad058e614000b6a4b
Infection
Thus, the technological ability to detect any infectious agent rapidly and specifically are currently available. The only remaining blockades to the use of PCR as a standard tool of diagnosis are in its cost and application, neither of which is insurmountable. The diagnosis of a few diseases will not benefit from the d...
PCR can't detect the presence of any bacteria when what doesn't occur?
{ "text": [ "significant proliferation of the infectious agent" ], "answer_start": [ 563 ] }
5a830a2ae60761001a2eb327
Infection
Thus, the technological ability to detect any infectious agent rapidly and specifically are currently available. The only remaining blockades to the use of PCR as a standard tool of diagnosis are in its cost and application, neither of which is insurmountable. The diagnosis of a few diseases will not benefit from the d...
What supernatural ability with regards to detection is currently available?
{ "text": [], "answer_start": [] }
5a830a2ae60761001a2eb328
Infection
Thus, the technological ability to detect any infectious agent rapidly and specifically are currently available. The only remaining blockades to the use of PCR as a standard tool of diagnosis are in its cost and application, neither of which is insurmountable. The diagnosis of a few diseases will not benefit from the d...
What are the remaining blockades to the removal of PCR as a standard tool of diagnosis?
{ "text": [], "answer_start": [] }
5a830a2ae60761001a2eb329
Infection
Thus, the technological ability to detect any infectious agent rapidly and specifically are currently available. The only remaining blockades to the use of PCR as a standard tool of diagnosis are in its cost and application, neither of which is insurmountable. The diagnosis of a few diseases will not benefit from the d...
What are some diseases which help improve PCR methods?
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5a830a2ae60761001a2eb32a
Infection
Thus, the technological ability to detect any infectious agent rapidly and specifically are currently available. The only remaining blockades to the use of PCR as a standard tool of diagnosis are in its cost and application, neither of which is insurmountable. The diagnosis of a few diseases will not benefit from the d...
Which blockades to use PCR are currently insurmountable?
{ "text": [], "answer_start": [] }
5a830a2ae60761001a2eb32b
Infection
Thus, the technological ability to detect any infectious agent rapidly and specifically are currently available. The only remaining blockades to the use of PCR as a standard tool of diagnosis are in its cost and application, neither of which is insurmountable. The diagnosis of a few diseases will not benefit from the d...
What diseases are considered fundamentally biological healing?
{ "text": [], "answer_start": [] }
57342ac5d058e614000b6a88
Infection
There is usually an indication for a specific identification of an infectious agent only when such identification can aid in the treatment or prevention of the disease, or to advance knowledge of the course of an illness prior to the development of effective therapeutic or preventative measures. For example, in the ear...
What is used in the treatment of AIDS?
{ "text": [ "AZT" ], "answer_start": [ 357 ] }
57342ac5d058e614000b6a89
Infection
There is usually an indication for a specific identification of an infectious agent only when such identification can aid in the treatment or prevention of the disease, or to advance knowledge of the course of an illness prior to the development of effective therapeutic or preventative measures. For example, in the ear...
How was the course of AIDS followed?
{ "text": [ "monitoring the composition of patient blood samples" ], "answer_start": [ 438 ] }
57342ac5d058e614000b6a8a
Infection
There is usually an indication for a specific identification of an infectious agent only when such identification can aid in the treatment or prevention of the disease, or to advance knowledge of the course of an illness prior to the development of effective therapeutic or preventative measures. For example, in the ear...
What could be done by understanding how the disease was transmitted?
{ "text": [ "resources could be targeted to the communities at greatest risk" ], "answer_start": [ 782 ] }
57342ac5d058e614000b6a8b
Infection
There is usually an indication for a specific identification of an infectious agent only when such identification can aid in the treatment or prevention of the disease, or to advance knowledge of the course of an illness prior to the development of effective therapeutic or preventative measures. For example, in the ear...
What did the genotypic identification of HIV later enable?
{ "text": [ "geographical origins of the virus" ], "answer_start": [ 1081 ] }
57342ac5d058e614000b6a8c
Infection
There is usually an indication for a specific identification of an infectious agent only when such identification can aid in the treatment or prevention of the disease, or to advance knowledge of the course of an illness prior to the development of effective therapeutic or preventative measures. For example, in the ear...
What is now commonly used to identify HIV in healthy people before the onset of the illnes?
{ "text": [ "Molecular diagnostics" ], "answer_start": [ 1308 ] }
5a830e00e60761001a2eb331
Infection
There is usually an indication for a specific identification of an infectious agent only when such identification can aid in the treatment or prevention of the disease, or to advance knowledge of the course of an illness prior to the development of effective therapeutic or preventative measures. For example, in the ear...
What is used as a punishment for AIDS?
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5a830e00e60761001a2eb332
Infection
There is usually an indication for a specific identification of an infectious agent only when such identification can aid in the treatment or prevention of the disease, or to advance knowledge of the course of an illness prior to the development of effective therapeutic or preventative measures. For example, in the ear...
How was the course of AIDS hidden?
{ "text": [], "answer_start": [] }
5a830e00e60761001a2eb333
Infection
There is usually an indication for a specific identification of an infectious agent only when such identification can aid in the treatment or prevention of the disease, or to advance knowledge of the course of an illness prior to the development of effective therapeutic or preventative measures. For example, in the ear...
What could be in danger by understanding how the disease was transmitted?
{ "text": [], "answer_start": [] }
5a830e00e60761001a2eb334
Infection
There is usually an indication for a specific identification of an infectious agent only when such identification can aid in the treatment or prevention of the disease, or to advance knowledge of the course of an illness prior to the development of effective therapeutic or preventative measures. For example, in the ear...
What did the genotypic identification of HIV later prevent?
{ "text": [], "answer_start": [] }
5a830e00e60761001a2eb335
Infection
There is usually an indication for a specific identification of an infectious agent only when such identification can aid in the treatment or prevention of the disease, or to advance knowledge of the course of an illness prior to the development of effective therapeutic or preventative measures. For example, in the ear...
What is now rarely used to identify HIV in healthy people before the onset of the illness?
{ "text": [], "answer_start": [] }
57342b4c4776f419006619e7
Infection
Techniques like hand washing, wearing gowns, and wearing face masks can help prevent infections from being passed from one person to another. Frequent hand washing remains the most important defense against the spread of unwanted organisms. There are other forms of prevention such as avoiding the use of illicit drugs, ...
What can wearing gowns and face masks help prevent?
{ "text": [ "infections from being passed from one person to another" ], "answer_start": [ 85 ] }
57342b4c4776f419006619e8
Infection
Techniques like hand washing, wearing gowns, and wearing face masks can help prevent infections from being passed from one person to another. Frequent hand washing remains the most important defense against the spread of unwanted organisms. There are other forms of prevention such as avoiding the use of illicit drugs, ...
What is the most important defense against the spread of unwanted organisms?
{ "text": [ "Frequent hand washing" ], "answer_start": [ 142 ] }
57342b4c4776f419006619e9
Infection
Techniques like hand washing, wearing gowns, and wearing face masks can help prevent infections from being passed from one person to another. Frequent hand washing remains the most important defense against the spread of unwanted organisms. There are other forms of prevention such as avoiding the use of illicit drugs, ...
Avoiding drugs and using condoms are other forms of what?
{ "text": [ "prevention" ], "answer_start": [ 266 ] }
57342b4c4776f419006619ea
Infection
Techniques like hand washing, wearing gowns, and wearing face masks can help prevent infections from being passed from one person to another. Frequent hand washing remains the most important defense against the spread of unwanted organisms. There are other forms of prevention such as avoiding the use of illicit drugs, ...
Why is it important to cook foods well?
{ "text": [ "prevention" ], "answer_start": [ 266 ] }
57342b4c4776f419006619eb
Infection
Techniques like hand washing, wearing gowns, and wearing face masks can help prevent infections from being passed from one person to another. Frequent hand washing remains the most important defense against the spread of unwanted organisms. There are other forms of prevention such as avoiding the use of illicit drugs, ...
What should one do with foods that have been left outside for a long time?
{ "text": [ "avoiding" ], "answer_start": [ 433 ] }
5a830ed5e60761001a2eb33b
Infection
Techniques like hand washing, wearing gowns, and wearing face masks can help prevent infections from being passed from one person to another. Frequent hand washing remains the most important defense against the spread of unwanted organisms. There are other forms of prevention such as avoiding the use of illicit drugs, ...
What can wearing gowns and face masks help facilitate?
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5a830ed5e60761001a2eb33c
Infection
Techniques like hand washing, wearing gowns, and wearing face masks can help prevent infections from being passed from one person to another. Frequent hand washing remains the most important defense against the spread of unwanted organisms. There are other forms of prevention such as avoiding the use of illicit drugs, ...
What is the least important defense against the spread of unwanted organisms?
{ "text": [], "answer_start": [] }
5a830ed5e60761001a2eb33d
Infection
Techniques like hand washing, wearing gowns, and wearing face masks can help prevent infections from being passed from one person to another. Frequent hand washing remains the most important defense against the spread of unwanted organisms. There are other forms of prevention such as avoiding the use of illicit drugs, ...
What are consuming drugs and avoiding condoms considered a form of?
{ "text": [], "answer_start": [] }
5a830ed5e60761001a2eb33e
Infection
Techniques like hand washing, wearing gowns, and wearing face masks can help prevent infections from being passed from one person to another. Frequent hand washing remains the most important defense against the spread of unwanted organisms. There are other forms of prevention such as avoiding the use of illicit drugs, ...
What does a balanced diet and regular exercise make impossible?
{ "text": [], "answer_start": [] }
5a830ed5e60761001a2eb33f
Infection
Techniques like hand washing, wearing gowns, and wearing face masks can help prevent infections from being passed from one person to another. Frequent hand washing remains the most important defense against the spread of unwanted organisms. There are other forms of prevention such as avoiding the use of illicit drugs, ...
What should one do with foods that have not been left outside for a long time?
{ "text": [], "answer_start": [] }
57342c544776f419006619f9
Infection
One of the ways to prevent or slow down the transmission of infectious diseases is to recognize the different characteristics of various diseases. Some critical disease characteristics that should be evaluated include virulence, distance traveled by victims, and level of contagiousness. The human strains of Ebola virus...
Recognizing the different characteristics of various diseases is one way to do what?
{ "text": [ "prevent or slow down the transmission of infectious diseases" ], "answer_start": [ 19 ] }
57342c544776f419006619fa
Infection
One of the ways to prevent or slow down the transmission of infectious diseases is to recognize the different characteristics of various diseases. Some critical disease characteristics that should be evaluated include virulence, distance traveled by victims, and level of contagiousness. The human strains of Ebola virus...
What are some critical disease characteristics that should be evaluated?
{ "text": [ "virulence, distance traveled by victims, and level of contagiousness" ], "answer_start": [ 218 ] }
57342c544776f419006619fb
Infection
One of the ways to prevent or slow down the transmission of infectious diseases is to recognize the different characteristics of various diseases. Some critical disease characteristics that should be evaluated include virulence, distance traveled by victims, and level of contagiousness. The human strains of Ebola virus...
What virus' strains incapacitate their victims extremely quickly before killing them?
{ "text": [ "Ebola" ], "answer_start": [ 309 ] }
57342c544776f419006619fc
Infection
One of the ways to prevent or slow down the transmission of infectious diseases is to recognize the different characteristics of various diseases. Some critical disease characteristics that should be evaluated include virulence, distance traveled by victims, and level of contagiousness. The human strains of Ebola virus...
Why is the initial stage of Ebola not very contagious?
{ "text": [ "victims experience only internal hemorrhaging" ], "answer_start": [ 683 ] }
57342c544776f419006619fd
Infection
One of the ways to prevent or slow down the transmission of infectious diseases is to recognize the different characteristics of various diseases. Some critical disease characteristics that should be evaluated include virulence, distance traveled by victims, and level of contagiousness. The human strains of Ebola virus...
What does the low virulence of HIV allow victims to do?
{ "text": [ "travel long distances" ], "answer_start": [ 1169 ] }
5a830f90e60761001a2eb345
Infection
One of the ways to prevent or slow down the transmission of infectious diseases is to recognize the different characteristics of various diseases. Some critical disease characteristics that should be evaluated include virulence, distance traveled by victims, and level of contagiousness. The human strains of Ebola virus...
What does recognizing the different characteristics of various diseases allow someone to increase?
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5a830f90e60761001a2eb346
Infection
One of the ways to prevent or slow down the transmission of infectious diseases is to recognize the different characteristics of various diseases. Some critical disease characteristics that should be evaluated include virulence, distance traveled by victims, and level of contagiousness. The human strains of Ebola virus...
What are some critical disease characteristics that should not be evaluated?
{ "text": [], "answer_start": [] }
5a830f90e60761001a2eb347
Infection
One of the ways to prevent or slow down the transmission of infectious diseases is to recognize the different characteristics of various diseases. Some critical disease characteristics that should be evaluated include virulence, distance traveled by victims, and level of contagiousness. The human strains of Ebola virus...
What virus' strains strengthen their victims extremely quickly before killing them?
{ "text": [], "answer_start": [] }
5a830f90e60761001a2eb348
Infection
One of the ways to prevent or slow down the transmission of infectious diseases is to recognize the different characteristics of various diseases. Some critical disease characteristics that should be evaluated include virulence, distance traveled by victims, and level of contagiousness. The human strains of Ebola virus...
Why is the initial stage of Ebola so contagious?
{ "text": [], "answer_start": [] }
5a830f90e60761001a2eb349
Infection
One of the ways to prevent or slow down the transmission of infectious diseases is to recognize the different characteristics of various diseases. Some critical disease characteristics that should be evaluated include virulence, distance traveled by victims, and level of contagiousness. The human strains of Ebola virus...
What does the extreme virulence of HIV allow victims to do?
{ "text": [], "answer_start": [] }
57342d2b4776f41900661a0d
Infection
Another effective way to decrease the transmission rate of infectious diseases is to recognize the effects of small-world networks. In epidemics, there are often extensive interactions within hubs or groups of infected individuals and other interactions within discrete hubs of susceptible individuals. Despite the low i...
Recognizing the effects of small-world networks allows one to decrease what?
{ "text": [ "transmission rate of infectious diseases" ], "answer_start": [ 38 ] }
57342d2b4776f41900661a0e
Infection
Another effective way to decrease the transmission rate of infectious diseases is to recognize the effects of small-world networks. In epidemics, there are often extensive interactions within hubs or groups of infected individuals and other interactions within discrete hubs of susceptible individuals. Despite the low i...
What type of interactions happen within groups of infected individuals in epidemics?
{ "text": [ "extensive interactions" ], "answer_start": [ 162 ] }
57342d2b4776f41900661a0f
Infection
Another effective way to decrease the transmission rate of infectious diseases is to recognize the effects of small-world networks. In epidemics, there are often extensive interactions within hubs or groups of infected individuals and other interactions within discrete hubs of susceptible individuals. Despite the low i...
What is a way of drastically reducing infection rates?
{ "text": [ "focus is on the prevention of transmission jumps" ], "answer_start": [ 683 ] }
57342d2b4776f41900661a10
Infection
Another effective way to decrease the transmission rate of infectious diseases is to recognize the effects of small-world networks. In epidemics, there are often extensive interactions within hubs or groups of infected individuals and other interactions within discrete hubs of susceptible individuals. Despite the low i...
What is an example of a success implementation of preventing transmission jumps?
{ "text": [ "needle exchange programs in areas with a high density of drug users" ], "answer_start": [ 757 ] }
57342d2b4776f41900661a11
Infection
Another effective way to decrease the transmission rate of infectious diseases is to recognize the effects of small-world networks. In epidemics, there are often extensive interactions within hubs or groups of infected individuals and other interactions within discrete hubs of susceptible individuals. Despite the low i...
When was vaccination used to prevent the spread of the foot-and-mouth virus?
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Infection
Another effective way to decrease the transmission rate of infectious diseases is to recognize the effects of small-world networks. In epidemics, there are often extensive interactions within hubs or groups of infected individuals and other interactions within discrete hubs of susceptible individuals. Despite the low i...
What does recognizing the effects of small-world networks allow one to increase?
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Infection
Another effective way to decrease the transmission rate of infectious diseases is to recognize the effects of small-world networks. In epidemics, there are often extensive interactions within hubs or groups of infected individuals and other interactions within discrete hubs of susceptible individuals. Despite the low i...
What type of interactions stop within groups of infected individuals in epidemics?
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Infection
Another effective way to decrease the transmission rate of infectious diseases is to recognize the effects of small-world networks. In epidemics, there are often extensive interactions within hubs or groups of infected individuals and other interactions within discrete hubs of susceptible individuals. Despite the low i...
What is a way of drastically harming infection rates?
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Infection
Another effective way to decrease the transmission rate of infectious diseases is to recognize the effects of small-world networks. In epidemics, there are often extensive interactions within hubs or groups of infected individuals and other interactions within discrete hubs of susceptible individuals. Despite the low i...
What is an example of a successful implementation of increasing transmission jumps?
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Infection
Another effective way to decrease the transmission rate of infectious diseases is to recognize the effects of small-world networks. In epidemics, there are often extensive interactions within hubs or groups of infected individuals and other interactions within discrete hubs of susceptible individuals. Despite the low i...
When was vaccination used to prevent the spread of the foot-and-neck virus?
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Infection
Resistance to infection (immunity) may be acquired following a disease, by asymptomatic carriage of the pathogen, by harboring an organism with a similar structure (crossreacting), or by vaccination. Knowledge of the protective antigens and specific acquired host immune factors is more complete for primary pathogens th...
What is resistance to infection known technically as?
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Infection
Resistance to infection (immunity) may be acquired following a disease, by asymptomatic carriage of the pathogen, by harboring an organism with a similar structure (crossreacting), or by vaccination. Knowledge of the protective antigens and specific acquired host immune factors is more complete for primary pathogens th...
When may immunity be acquired?
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Infection
Resistance to infection (immunity) may be acquired following a disease, by asymptomatic carriage of the pathogen, by harboring an organism with a similar structure (crossreacting), or by vaccination. Knowledge of the protective antigens and specific acquired host immune factors is more complete for primary pathogens th...
What is knowledge of protective antigens more complete for?
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Infection
Resistance to infection (immunity) may be acquired following a disease, by asymptomatic carriage of the pathogen, by harboring an organism with a similar structure (crossreacting), or by vaccination. Knowledge of the protective antigens and specific acquired host immune factors is more complete for primary pathogens th...
What does herd immunity offer to vulnerable people when a large enough proportion of the population has acquired immunity?
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Infection
Resistance to infection (immunity) may be acquired following a disease, by asymptomatic carriage of the pathogen, by harboring an organism with a similar structure (crossreacting), or by vaccination. Knowledge of the protective antigens and specific acquired host immune factors is more complete for primary pathogens th...
Vaccination is a way in which what may be acquired?
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Infection
Resistance to infection (immunity) may be acquired following a disease, by asymptomatic carriage of the pathogen, by harboring an organism with a similar structure (crossreacting), or by vaccination. Knowledge of the protective antigens and specific acquired host immune factors is more complete for primary pathogens th...
What is resistance to infection known informally as?
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Infection
Resistance to infection (immunity) may be acquired following a disease, by asymptomatic carriage of the pathogen, by harboring an organism with a similar structure (crossreacting), or by vaccination. Knowledge of the protective antigens and specific acquired host immune factors is more complete for primary pathogens th...
When may immunity be the best?
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Infection
Resistance to infection (immunity) may be acquired following a disease, by asymptomatic carriage of the pathogen, by harboring an organism with a similar structure (crossreacting), or by vaccination. Knowledge of the protective antigens and specific acquired host immune factors is more complete for primary pathogens th...
What is knowledge of protective antigens forbidden for?
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Infection
Resistance to infection (immunity) may be acquired following a disease, by asymptomatic carriage of the pathogen, by harboring an organism with a similar structure (crossreacting), or by vaccination. Knowledge of the protective antigens and specific acquired host immune factors is more complete for primary pathogens th...
What does herd mentality offer to invulnerable people when a tiny proportion of the population has acquired immunity?
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Infection
Resistance to infection (immunity) may be acquired following a disease, by asymptomatic carriage of the pathogen, by harboring an organism with a similar structure (crossreacting), or by vaccination. Knowledge of the protective antigens and specific acquired host immune factors is more complete for primary pathogens th...
What is the only way to lose immunity?
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Infection
The clearance of the pathogens, either treatment-induced or spontaneous, it can be influenced by the genetic variants carried by the individual patients. For instance, for genotype 1 hepatitis C treated with Pegylated interferon-alpha-2a or Pegylated interferon-alpha-2b (brand names Pegasys or PEG-Intron) combined with...
What can the clearance of pathogens be influenced by in an individual?
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Infection
The clearance of the pathogens, either treatment-induced or spontaneous, it can be influenced by the genetic variants carried by the individual patients. For instance, for genotype 1 hepatitis C treated with Pegylated interferon-alpha-2a or Pegylated interferon-alpha-2b (brand names Pegasys or PEG-Intron) combined with...
What is the brand name Pegasys for?
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Infection
The clearance of the pathogens, either treatment-induced or spontaneous, it can be influenced by the genetic variants carried by the individual patients. For instance, for genotype 1 hepatitis C treated with Pegylated interferon-alpha-2a or Pegylated interferon-alpha-2b (brand names Pegasys or PEG-Intron) combined with...
What are patients carrying certain genetic variant alleles near the IL28B gene more likely to achieve?
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Infection
The clearance of the pathogens, either treatment-induced or spontaneous, it can be influenced by the genetic variants carried by the individual patients. For instance, for genotype 1 hepatitis C treated with Pegylated interferon-alpha-2a or Pegylated interferon-alpha-2b (brand names Pegasys or PEG-Intron) combined with...
What can the increase of pathogens be stopped by in an individual?
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Infection
The clearance of the pathogens, either treatment-induced or spontaneous, it can be influenced by the genetic variants carried by the individual patients. For instance, for genotype 1 hepatitis C treated with Pegylated interferon-alpha-2a or Pegylated interferon-alpha-2b (brand names Pegasys or PEG-Intron) combined with...
What are patients carrying certain genetic variant alleles near the IL28B gene always going to achieve?
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Infection
The clearance of the pathogens, either treatment-induced or spontaneous, it can be influenced by the genetic variants carried by the individual patients. For instance, for genotype 1 hepatitis C treated with Pegylated interferon-alpha-2a or Pegylated interferon-alpha-2b (brand names Pegasys or PEG-Intron) combined with...
What disease has no known treatment?
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Infection
The clearance of the pathogens, either treatment-induced or spontaneous, it can be influenced by the genetic variants carried by the individual patients. For instance, for genotype 1 hepatitis C treated with Pegylated interferon-alpha-2a or Pegylated interferon-alpha-2b (brand names Pegasys or PEG-Intron) combined with...
What can only be induced by treatment and not spontaneously?
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Infection
When infection attacks the body, anti-infective drugs can suppress the infection. Several broad types of anti-infective drugs exist, depending on the type of organism targeted; they include antibacterial (antibiotic; including antitubercular), antiviral, antifungal and antiparasitic (including antiprotozoal and antihel...
What type of drugs can suppress an infection when it attacks the body?
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Infection
When infection attacks the body, anti-infective drugs can suppress the infection. Several broad types of anti-infective drugs exist, depending on the type of organism targeted; they include antibacterial (antibiotic; including antitubercular), antiviral, antifungal and antiparasitic (including antiprotozoal and antihel...
How many broad types of anti-infective drugs exist?
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Infection
When infection attacks the body, anti-infective drugs can suppress the infection. Several broad types of anti-infective drugs exist, depending on the type of organism targeted; they include antibacterial (antibiotic; including antitubercular), antiviral, antifungal and antiparasitic (including antiprotozoal and antihel...
What depends on the method an antibiotic is given?
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Infection
When infection attacks the body, anti-infective drugs can suppress the infection. Several broad types of anti-infective drugs exist, depending on the type of organism targeted; they include antibacterial (antibiotic; including antitubercular), antiviral, antifungal and antiparasitic (including antiprotozoal and antihel...
How are severe infections of the brain usually treated?
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Infection
When infection attacks the body, anti-infective drugs can suppress the infection. Several broad types of anti-infective drugs exist, depending on the type of organism targeted; they include antibacterial (antibiotic; including antitubercular), antiviral, antifungal and antiparasitic (including antiprotozoal and antihel...
How do antibiotics work?
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Infection
When infection attacks the body, anti-infective drugs can suppress the infection. Several broad types of anti-infective drugs exist, depending on the type of organism targeted; they include antibacterial (antibiotic; including antitubercular), antiviral, antifungal and antiparasitic (including antiprotozoal and antihel...
What type of drugs can worsen an infection when it attacks the body?
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