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casual contact
the level of contact at which a person is not subject to contracting a communicable disease from another, especially nonsexual contact with a person infected with a venereal disease. -
centers for disease control
the branch of the U.S. Public Health Service under the Department of Health and Human Services charged with the investigation and control of contagious disease in the nation. Abbreviation: CDC. -
communicable disease center
former name of Centers for Disease Control. -
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glanders
a contagious disease chiefly of horses and mules but communicable to humans, caused by the bacterium Pseudomonas mallei and characterized by swellings beneath the jaw and a profuse mucous discharge from the nostrils. -
infectious
communicable by infection, as from one person to another or from one part of the body to another: infectious diseases.