| CSPINE | corticosteroid use, seropositive RA, peripheral joint destruction, involvement of cervical nerves, n... |
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| DILD | diffuse infiltrative lung disease; diffuse interstitial lung disease |
| DPD | Department of Public Dispensary; depression pure disease; desoxypyridoxine; diffuse pulmonary diseas... |
| ED | early-decision [applicant]; early differentiation; ectodermal dysplasia; ectopic depolarization; eff... |
| GSD | genetically significant dose; Gerstmann-Straussler disease; glutathione synthetase deficiency; glyco... |
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| cowpox virus | A species of orthopoxvirus that is the aetiologic agent of cowpox. It is closely related to but antigenically different from vaccina virus. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| Coxsackie virus | <virology> A group of picornaviruses, included in the genus Enterovirus, first isolated in a village called Coxsackie, New York, USA. Coxsackie virus has a spherical shape, about 28 nm in diameter, and causes myositis, paralysis, and death in young mice, and is responsible for a variety of diseases in man, and probably accounts for as many as 50% of all cases of viral pericarditis and myocarditis. Other infections include; herpangina, aseptic meningitis, a common-cold-like syndrome, a non-paralytic poliomyelitis-like syndrome, epidemic pleurodynia, and a serious myocarditis. Also causes hand, foot and mouth disease. They are divided antigenically into two groups, A and B, each of which includes a number of serological types. Coxsackie A viruses are divided into 24 serotypes and are associated with or implicated in herpangina, hand-foot-and-mouth disease, aseptic meningitis, paralytic disease, encephalitis, ataxia, acute onset juvenile diabetes, and cardiac diseases with diffuse myositis. Coxsackie A24 variant can cause acute haemorrhagic conjunctivitis. Coxsackie B is divided into 6 serotypes and associated with epidemic pleurodynia (b1, b3), myocarditis and endocarditis (b3, b1), respiratory disorders (b3, b5), and kidney, pancreas, and liver disorders. It can also produce focal areas of degeneration in brain and skeletal muscle. Similar to polioviruses in chemical and physical properties. Origin: Coxsackie, N.Y., where first isolated (08 Mar 2000) |
| porcine epidemic diarrhoea virus | A coronavirus causing porcine epidemic diarrhoea in pigs. (05 Mar 2000) |
| porcine haemagglutinating encephalomyelitis virus | A coronavirus causing vomiting, wasting, and encephalomyelitis in young pigs. (05 Mar 2000) |
| porcine sarcoma virus | A retrovirus causing sarcoma in swine. (05 Mar 2000) |
| myxomatosis virus | The poxvirus of the genus Leporipoxvirus causing myxomatosis of rabbits. Synonym: myxomatosis virus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| myxoma virus | <virology> A poxvirus (see Poxviridae) that causes myxomatosis. Originally isolated from a species of wild rabbit, Sylvilagus in Brazil, in which it causes a mild nonfatal disease, it was found to be 99% fatal in the European rabbit Oryctolagus. It causes the characteristic, sub cutaneous gelatinous swellings, myxomata and usually kills in 2-5 days. It has been used to control rabbit populations in Australia and Britain, but there are signs that they have developed immunity. (18 Nov 1997) |
| Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever virus | A virus of the genus Nairovirus (family Bunyaviridae) from Africa and the southern USSR, carried by ticks (Hyalomma and Amblyomma) and found in human blood; the cause of Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever. (05 Mar 2000) |
| HA1 virus | parainfluenza virus type 3 |
| HA2 virus | parainfluenza virus type 1 |
| haemadsorption virus | <virology> An older term for certain influenza viruses. The two types are: haemadsorption virus type I - mostly in children, symptoms include bronchitis and pneumonia. Now called parainfluenza 3. Haemadsorption virus type 2 - is sometimes present in children who have a respiratory disease that includes high fever. Now called parainfluenza 1. (09 Oct 1997) |
| haemadsorption virus test | A method for detecting haemagglutinating viruses that is based on adherence of erythrocytes to infected cells. (05 Mar 2000) |
| haemadsorption virus type 1 | parainfluenza virus type 3 |
| haemadsorption virus type 2 | parainfluenza virus type 1 |
| croup-associated virus | parainfluenza virus type 2 |