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infectious disease

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  1. 1. n. a disease transmitted only by a specific kind of contact Source: wordnet
  2. 2. (a) Any disease caused by the entrance, growth, and multiplication of bacteria or protozoans in the body; a germ disease. It may not be contagious. (b) Sometimes, as distinguished from contagious disease, such a disease communicated by germs carried in the air or water, and thus spread without contact with the patient, as measles. Source: webster

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