Glossary Item
Infectious agent : infectious agent
Effective 24 December 2018 to 14 March 2019Preferred Term: Definition - Infectious agent
Other Terms:
- infectious agent
- infectious agents
- infectious disease
- infectious diseases
Definition:
Infectious agent includes any of the following (whether naturally occurring or synthetically created):
(a) a virus;
(b) a prion;
(c) a plasmid;
(d) a viroid;
(e) a thing that is a part of an infectious agent.
Examples for point (e) include capsids, envelopes, enzymes, genetic material coding for an infectious agent and proteins.