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Appendix D Glossary
Pages 389-396

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From page 389...
... Antibody interacts with the other components of the immune system and can render the antigen harmless, although for various reasons this may not always occur. Antigen: A molecule capable of eliciting a specific antibody or T-cell response.
From page 390...
... Through Epi-X, CDC officials, state and local health departments, poison control centers, and other public health professionals can access and share preliminary health surveillance ­information -- quickly and securely. Users can also be actively notified of breaking health events as they occur.
From page 391...
... HealthMap provides a jumping-off point for realtime information on emerging infectious diseases and has particular interest for public health officials and international travelers. For more information, please see http://healthmap.org (accessed April 28, 2010)
From page 392...
... International air-traffic patterns: The patterns of international air traffic include travel and trade routes as well as the volume of travel and travelers between nodes in the air traffic system. King County Healthcare Coalition: The Coalition is a network of healthcare organizations and providers that are committed to coordinating their emergency preparedness and response activities.
From page 393...
... 94-380) : An act to amend the Public Health Service Act to authorize the establishment and implementation of an emergency national swine flu immunization program and to provide an exclusive remedy for personal injury or death arising out of the manufacture, distribution, or administration of the swine flu vaccine under such program.
From page 394...
... in which an infectious agent normally lives and multiplies, on which it depends primarily for survival, and in which it reproduces itself in such manner that it can be transmitted to a susceptible vector. Retrovirus: An RNA virus that is replicated in a host cell via the enzyme reverse transcriptase to produce DNA from its RNA genome.
From page 395...
... Reverse transcription PCR is not to be confused with real-time polymerase chain reaction (Q-PCR/qRT-PCR) , which is also sometimes (incorrectly)
From page 396...
... ; may be enzootic or epizootic. Zoonotic pool: The population of animals infected with nonhuman microbes that present a potential threat of transmission to humans.


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