Term | Definition |
Bacteremia | The presence of bacteria in the blood |
Brucellosis | An infectious zoonotic disease that occurs worldwide and is caused by various Brucella species |
Ehrlichiosis | Caused by several species of the genus Ehrlichia, a gram negative, obligatory intracellular bacterium. Early signs of the condition or nonspecific may resemble the symptoms of various other diseases |
Endocarditis | And inflammation of the endocardium |
Endocardium | Inner lining of the heart |
Gametocytes | A cell that develops into gametes by meiotic cell division |
Gangrene | A complication of necrosis;the decay and death of tissue, often related to wounds |
Ischemia | An insufficient supply of blood to a tissue or organ |
Lyme disease | A tick borne illness caused by Borrelia burgdorferi, a gram negative, motile spirochetes |
Merozoites | A daughter cell of a protozoan parasite |
Microbemia | A term used to describe infections caused by microorganisms that enter the circulatory system through the lymphatic drainage |
Myocarditis | Inflammation of the myocardium |
Myocardium | The middle layer of the heart, composed of cardiac muscle |
Pericarditis | Inflammation of the pericardium |
Pericardium | The double-walled sack filled with serous fluid that encloses the heart and the roots of the great vessels of the heart |
Plague | A life threatening disease caused by yersinia pestis |
Rheumatic fever | A complication / disorder that can follow an infection by Streptococcus pyogenes and affects numerous body systems |
Rocky Mountain spotted fever | Disease caused by the bacterium Rickettsia Rickettsii transmitted by tics |
Sepsis | The growth of microorganisms in blood and other tissues |
Septicemia | A systemic infection in which microorganisms multiply in the bloodstream |
Septic shock | Shock and dangerously low blood pressure caused by bacterial endotoxins |
Sporozoites | Malarial Trophozoite in the salivary glands of infected mosquitoes |
Tularemia | A zoonotic disease of mammals caused by Francisella Tularensis; most often associated with rabbits |
Vector | In microbiology, an organism that transmit pathogenic, off antivirus or plasmid, that transfers genetic material from one organism to another |
Viral hemorrhagic fever | A group of febrile illnesses that range in severity from relatively mild to life-threatening, and can result in severe multisystem problems |