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Appendix C: Glossary
Appendix C: Glossary
Pages 163-170
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Anthrax: infectious disease of humans and animals caused by the bacterium Bacillus anthracis. Antibody: an immune system protein that specifically recognizes a target site on an antigen.
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The ob jective of containment is to confine biohazards and to reduce the potential exposure of the laboratory worker, persons outside of the laboratory, and the environment to potentially infectious agents. It can be accomplished through the following means: Primary Containment: Protection of personnel and the immediate laboratory environment through good microbiological technique (laboratory practice)
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Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service) as a "new hybrid microorganism created by joining nucleic acid fragments from two or more different microorganisms in which each of at least two of the fragments contain essential genes necessary for replication.
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Live, attenuated vaccine: a vaccine in which a live virus or bacteria is weakened through chemical or physical processes in order to produce an immune response without causing the severe effects of the disease. Live, attenuated vac cines currently licensed in the United States include measles, mumps, rubella, polio, yellow fever, and varicella.
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. The lists of biological agents subject to the Select Agent regulations are maintained by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.
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Vaccination: A process that originally referred to a particular type of immunization, namely, the inoculation of antigenic material from the cowpox virus in order to generate immune resistance to the related but more lethal disease of smallpox. In current usage, the term is frequently used synonymously with im munization to indicate stimulation of the immune system by delivery of antigens in order to provoke an antibody response.
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169 APPENDIX C Zoonotic disease: an infectious disease that can be transmitted (in some instances, by a vector) from nonhuman animals, both wild and domestic, to humans or from humans to nonhuman animals (the latter is sometimes called reverse zoonosis or anthroponosis)
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