Tagged: human diseases

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Are Prions infectious agents?

Prions are infectious agents which consist of an abnormally folded protein. These are similar in size to viruses. These are encoded by the PRNP gene and are particularly composed of...

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Human diseases caused by bacteria

Turning attention to bacterial pathogens, of all the known bacterial organisms, very few of them are pathogenic to humans causing bacterial diseases. Human diseases caused by bacteria (bacterial diseases) have...