U.S. intelligence analysis of patterns of infectious diseases and impacts/Related Articles

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Antibiotic resistance [r]: The development of resistance to an antibiotic in an organism originally susceptible to it ^[e]
Digital object identifier [r]: Unique label for a computer readable object that can be found on the internet, usually used in academic journals. ^[e]
Ebola [r]: A virus that causes severe hemhorragic fever and often death, that is easily spread. ^[e]
Electronic health record [r]: Longitudinal collection of electronic health information about individual patients or populations ^[e]
Encephalitis [r]: Inflammation of the brain due to infection, autoimmune processes, toxins, and other conditions. ^[e]
Escherichia coli [r]: A flagellated rod-shaped bacterium; a major species in the lower intestines of mammals. ^[e]
Francisella tularensis [r]: Pathogenic, aerobic Gram-negative bacteria, that causes the circulatory disease tularemia, which can be contracted via contaminated food or drink, physical contact, spray, or bug bite. ^[e]
Lyme disease [r]: Emerging infection transmitted by the bite of ticks carrying the spirochete bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi. ^[e]
Malaria [r]: A tropical infectious disease, caused by protozoa carried by mosquitoes, which is the world's worst insect vector-borne disease ^[e]

Nipah virus [r]: Respiratory disease of pigs caused by a paramyxovirus in the genus Henipavirus, transmitted from bats and is zoonotic causing a fatal encephalitis in humans. ^[e]
Prion [r]: Simple proteins that do not contain any nucleic acid, thought to act as an infectious agent responsible for Creutzfeld-Jacob disease, kuru and possibly other degenerative diseases of the brain in humans, scrapie in sheep, and bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE). ^[e]
Respiratory tract infection [r]: Illnesses caused by an acute infection which involves the upper respiratory tract: nose, sinuses, pharynx or larynx. ^[e]
Salmonella enterica [r]: Rod shaped, flagellated, aerobic, Gram-negative bacterium that causes food poisoning and gastroenteritis. ^[e]
Staphylococcus aureus [r]: Facultatively anaerobic, Gram-positive pathogenic coccus capable of producing suppurative lesions, furunculosis, pyemia, osteomyelitis, food poisoning, and may be resistant to commonly used antibiotics. ^[e]
Tuberculosis [r]: Infectious disease of humans and animals caused by the tubercle bacillus and characterized by the formation of tubercles on the lungs and other tissues of the body. ^[e]
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Anthrax [r]: A naturally occurring disease, caused by Bacillus anthracis, which has been weaponized as a biological weapon and also in bioterrorism ^[e]
Q fever [r]: Disease caused by infection with the rickettsia Coxiella burnetii, a bacterium that affects both humans and animals, resulting in a rash, fever, malaise, and muscular pains. ^[e]
Coastal taipan [r]: a highly venomous snake species found in Australia and the island of New Guinea. ^[e]