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Glossary Item

Infectious agent : infectious agent

Effective 2 July 2019

Preferred Term: infectious agent

Other Terms:

Definition:

Infectious agent includes any of the following:

1. a virus;

2. a prion;

3. a plasmid;

4. a viroid;

5. a thing that is a part of an infectious agent.

Examples: For the purposes of point 5, capsids, envelopes, enzymes, genetic material coding for an infectious agent, proteins.