| ACET | Advisory Committee for the Elimination of Tuberculosis |
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| AGT | abnormal glucose tolerance; activity group therapy; acute generalized tuberculosis; angiotensin; ant... |
| AMT | acute miliary tuberculosis; alpha-methyltyrosine; American Medical Technologists; amethopterin; amit... |
| BREASTS | bronchopulmonary aspergillosis, radiotherapy, extrinsic allergic alveolitis, ankylosing spondylitis,... |
| CTA | Canadian Tuberculosis Association; chemotactic activity; chromotropic acid; Committee on Thrombolyti... |
| poliovirus vaccines | Inactivated poliovirus vaccine (IPV), an aqueous suspension of inactivated strains of poliomyelitis virus (types 1, 2, and 3) used by injection; has largely been replaced by the oral vaccine. See: Salk vaccine. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| haemophilus vaccines | Vaccines or candidate vaccines containing antigenic polysaccharides from haemophilus influenzae and designed to prevent infection. The vaccine can contain the polysaccharides alone or more frequently polysaccharides conjugated to carrier molecules. It is also seen as a combined vaccine with diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis vaccine. (12 Dec 1998) |
| saids vaccines | Vaccines or candidate vaccines designed to prevent saids (simian acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) and containing inactivated siv or type d retroviruses or some of their component antigens. (12 Dec 1998) |
| hepatitis b vaccines | Vaccines or candidate vaccines containing inactivated hepatitis b or some of its component antigens and designed to prevent hepatitis b. Some vaccines may be recombinantly produced. (12 Dec 1998) |
| protozoan vaccines | Suspensions of attenuated or killed protozoa administered for the prevention or treatment of infectious protozoan disease. (12 Dec 1998) |
| hog cholera vaccines | Vaccine's either of virus from blood of infected swine, inactivated with crystal violet, or live virus attenuated in rabbits or tissue culture and frequently used in conjunction with hog cholera virus antiserum. (05 Mar 2000) |
| influenza virus vaccines | Influenza virus grown in embryonated eggs and inactivated, usually by the addition of formalin; both whole virus and subunit preparations containing haemagglutinins and neuraminidase are used; because of the marked and progressive antigenic variation of the influenza viruses, the strains included are regularly changed following various outbreaks of influenza in order to include most recently isolated epidemic strains of both type A influenza and type B influenza. (05 Mar 2000) |
| foot-and-mouth disease virus vaccines | Vaccine's either of inactivated virus from infected cattle tongue epithelium or, more recently, of live virus attenuated by embryonated egg or mouse passage and propagated in tissue culture. (05 Mar 2000) |
| fungal vaccines | Suspensions of attenuated or killed fungi administered for the prevention or treatment of infectious fungal disease. (12 Dec 1998) |
| live vaccines | Vaccines containing living organisms or intact viruses. (14 Nov 1997) |
| acute miliary tuberculosis | A rapidly fatal disease due to the general dissemination of tubercle bacilli in the blood, resulting in the formation of miliary tubercles in various organs and tissues, and producing symptoms of profound toxaemia. Synonym: acute miliary tuberculosis, disseminated tuberculosis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| acute tuberculosis | A rapidly fatal disease due to the general dissemination of tubercle bacilli in the blood, resulting in the formation of miliary tubercles in various organs and tissues, and producing symptoms of profound toxaemia. Synonym: acute miliary tuberculosis, disseminated tuberculosis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| adult tuberculosis | Tuberculosis found in adults and characterised by lesions near the apex of an upper lobe, which may cavitate or heal with scarring without spreading to lymph nodes; theoretically, secondary tuberculosis may be due to exogenous reinfection or to reactivation of a dormant endogenous infection. Synonym: adult tuberculosis, postprimary tuberculosis, reinfection tuberculosis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| aerogenic tuberculosis | Infection with the Mycobacterium tuberculosis spread by inhalation of infected droplets. (05 Mar 2000) |
| anthracotic tuberculosis | <chest medicine> Fibrosis and scarring of the lungs secondary to the repeated inhalation of dust associated with some occupation. Examples include silica, asbestos and coal dust exposure. (29 Oct 1998) |