What is the term for rod-shaped bacteria linked in a chain?

A wasting due to lack of nutrition of any part. The reduction in size of a structure after having come to full functioning maturity.

What is the term for a reduced number of white blood cells?

Which of the following may cause pathological disease conditions?

A complexus of symptoms running together. A set of symptoms characterizing a disease or condition.

An infection that becomes systemic.

An arthropod vector in which the disease causing organism multiples or develops within the arthropod prior to becoming infective for a susceptible individual.

What is the causative organism for tuberculosis?

The process of completely removing or destroying all life forms or their products on or in a substance.

A microbe that can only live in the presence of oxygen