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(medicine) the invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms and their multiplication which can lead to tissue damage and disease
(phonetics) the alteration of a speech sound under the influence of a neighboring sound
the pathological state resulting from the invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms
(international law) illegality that taints or contaminates a ship or cargo rendering it liable to seizure
moral corruption or contamination; "ambitious men are led astray by an infection that is almost unavoidable"
an incident in which an infectious disease is transmitted (同)contagion, transmission

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Immersion challenge with low and highly virulent infectious salmon anaemia virus reveals different pathogenesis in Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar L.

McBeath A1, Aamelfot M, Christiansen DH, Matejusova I, Markussen T, Kaldhusdal M, Dale OB, Weli SC, Falk K.
Journal of fish diseases.J Fish Dis.2014 May 13. doi: 10.1111/jfd.12253. [Epub ahead of print]
The salmonid orthomyxovirus infectious salmon anaemia virus (ISAV) causes disease of varying severity in farmed Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar L. Field observations suggest that host factors, the environment and differences between ISAV strains attribute to the large variation in disease progression.
PMID 24820820

Upolu virus and Aransas Bay virus, Two Presumptive Bunyaviruses, Are Novel Members of the Family Orthomyxoviridae.

Briese T1, Chowdhary R, Travassos da Rosa A, Hutchison SK, Popov V, Street C, Tesh RB, Lipkin WI.
Journal of virology.J Virol.2014 May;88(10):5298-309. doi: 10.1128/JVI.03391-13. Epub 2014 Feb 26.
Emerging and zoonotic pathogens pose continuing threats to human health and ongoing challenges to diagnostics. As nucleic acid tests are playing increasingly prominent roles in diagnostics, the genetic characterization of molecularly uncharacterized agents is expected to significantly enhance detect
PMID 24574415