The virus resides in memory, it infects the master boot records of all physical hard disks and infects the boot sectors of floppy disks.

Although designed to infect DOS systems, the virus can easily disrupt other operating systems installed on the system since, like many viruses, the Michelangelo infects the master boot record of a hard drive.

The pneumonic plague infects the lungs, and with that infection comes the possibility of person-to-person transmission through respiratory droplets.

HIV infects humans with the use of this enzyme.

Of particular interest here is mimivirus, a giant virus that infects amoebae and encodes much of the molecular machinery traditionally associated with bacteria.

Typically, Toxoplasma infects animals from the Felidae family and oocysts are shed with the feces.

* Dr. David Acer, Florida dentist, infects 6 patients with HIV, unclear if this was a deliberate act: 1987 – 1990

* The criminal transmission of HIV by consensual sexual activity infects one partner with a terminal disease which is, if not a homicide in the long term, certainly a serious injury constituting an assault in the short term.

Cytomegalovirus ( Congenital )-one group of herpes viruses that infects humans and can cause a variety of clinical symptoms, including deafness or hearing impairment ; infection with the virus may be either before or after birth.

Whipworm commonly infects patients also infected with Giardia, Entamoeba histolytica, Ascaris lumbricoides, and hookworms.

The fungal inoculum infects the growing cones of W. mirabilis early during their development, and a sharp increase in infection occurs coincident with the appearance of the pollination drops, through which the fungal spores may gain access to the interior of the developing seed.

There is a mistaken idea that this spring infects those who drink of it with an unnatural lewdness.

What makes it so particularly striking and attractive is the way it infects the surrounding bees ; those sitting next to the dancer start tripping after her, always trying to keep their outstretched feelers on close contact with the tip of her abdomen .... They take part in each of her manoeuvrings so that the dancer herself, in her mad wheeling movements, appears to carry behind her a perpetual comet ’ s tail of bees.

HTLV infects T-cells and so, with increased expression of these stimulatory cytokines and transcription factors, leads to uncontrolled proliferation of T-cells and hence lymphoma.

At this point the Baron drugs and viciously rapes Mohiam, and in retribution she secretly infects him with the disease that will later leave him horribly obese.

As the roach staggers around for hours or even days, it infects other roaches in the nest, with toxicant transfer through feces, which then go on to infect others.

After returning home, Jack infects all his children with the phage to eradicate the potential nanobot infestation.

A rogue member of the Canon infects all of humanity with the software.

Most cases of salmonellosis are caused by food infected with ' S. Enterica ', which often infects cattle and poultry, though also other animals such as domestic cats and hamsters have also been shown to be sources of infection to humans.

In the pilot, " Lost My Marbles ", Hacker infects Motherboard with a computer virus.

Stryfe is the clone of Nathan Christopher Summers, the son of Cyclops and Madelyne Pryor ( a clone of Jean Grey ); when the immortal mutant Apocalypse infects the infant Nathan with a techno-organic virus, a woman from the distant future introducing herself as Askani appears to Cyclops and Jean Grey, telling them that she can save the child.

Bane buries Batman alive, Star Sapphire makes Hal Jordan lose his will by having some people ( including a fake-robot version of Carol ) die in front of him, Cheetah infects Wonder Woman with a poison that makes everyone she sees be Cheetah, making her fight them all until her heart gave out, Mirror Master planted a bomb through Flash's wrist that would explode should he remove it, do nothing, or decelerate, should he chose to run ( which he did ), Metallo shoots Superman in the chest with a Kryptonite bullet, and Ma ' alefa ' ak coats the Martian Manhunter in magnesium sulfite and lights him on fire.

Set after the end of Final Fantasy VII but prior to the events of Advent Children, the story deals with Aerith and Sephiroth's journeys through the Lifestream, and Sephiroth's creation of Geostigma, a disease that infects anyone who come into contact with the tainted Lifestream.

This is used by some cybercafes and some training and educational institutes, and helps ensure that even if a user does misconfigure something, downloads inappropriate content or programs, or infects a computer with a virus, the computer will be restored to a clean, working state.

* Acme ( computer virus ), a computer virus which infects Microsoft DOS EXE files

Xandu. 2385 is a memory resident virus that infects EXE files in DOS operating systems of version 5. 0 and higher.

Botrytis cinerea not only infects plants, it also hosts several mycoviruses itself ( see Table ).

Abraxas, also known as Abraxas5, discovered in April 1993, is an encrypted, overwriting, file infecting computer virus which infects. COM and. EXE files, although it does not infect < tt > command. com </ tt >.

Each time an infected file is executed, Abraxas infects the copy of < tt > dosshell. com </ tt > located in the C:

Each time an infected file is executed, Acid infects all of the. EXE files in the current directory.

Later, if an infected file is executed, it infects the. COM files in the current directory.

AGENA is a memory resident, file infecting computer virus which infects. COM and. EXE files, including < tt > command. com </ tt >.

HIV infects vital cells in the human immune system such as helper T cells ( specifically CD4 < SUP >+</ SUP > T cells ), macrophages, and dendritic cells.

* West Nile Neuroinvasive Disease ( WNND ), which occurs in less than 1 percent of cases, is when the virus infects the central nervous system resulting in meningitis, encephalitis, meningoencephalitis or a poliomyelitis-like syndrome.

Because R. rickettsii infects the cells lining blood vessels throughout the body, severe manifestations of this disease may involve the respiratory system, central nervous system, gastrointestinal system, or renal system.

EBV infects B cells of the immune system and epithelial cells.

It primarily infects macrophages, a type of white blood cell, thus is able to evade the immune system.

Primarily a pathogen of the mammalian respiratory system, MTB infects the lungs.

** Neurotropism, a virus that preferentially infects the host's nervous system.

JCV can cross the blood – brain barrier into the central nervous system, where it infects oligodendrocytes and astrocytes, possibly through the 5-HT < sub > 2A </ sub > serotonin receptor.

When the virus infects a hard drive, it makes a copy of the partition table ( an important part of the system area ), writes the copy, and deletes the original partition table.

Ransomware ( also referred to in some cases as cryptoviruses, cryptotrojans or cryptoworms ) comprises a class of malware which restricts access to the computer system that it infects, and demands a ransom paid to the creator of the malware in order for the restriction to be removed.