A disease of the white grubs of Japanese beetles, caused by a soil-dwelling bacterium, Paenibacillus popilliae. / Synonym of grasserie (“disease of silkworms”)

plural of prion disease

transmissible spongiform encephalopathy

(pathology, slang) Hypersensitivity to ultraviolet radiation, causing pus-filled rashes, caused by furanocoumarins in lime juice. Furanocoumarins damage DNA when activated by UV.

(medicine) An illness caused by a specific infectious agent (bacterium, virus, fungus, protozoa, prion etc.), that results from transmission of that agent from an infected person, animal, or reservoir to a susceptible host.

An infectious neurological syndrome caused by infection with Borna disease virus.

A very rare skeletal condition of uncertain etiology, characterized by the uncontrolled proliferation of distended, thin-walled vascular or lymphatic channels within bone, which leads to resorption and replacement of bone with angiomas and/or fibrosis.

Hurler syndrome

histoplasmosis

A highly contagious parvoviral disease of mustelids, causing spontaneous abortion and death in minks and ferrets.