Also see the Gulf War Cross Reference File for assistance.
New documents are constantly being added to the GulfLINK sytem. Not all keyword examples in the following list are guaranteed to supply document "hits" at this time, but are relevant keyword terms to documents which have populated and will be populating the system in the coming months.
This keyword list is designed to be used with information retrieval algorithms based on Boolean and proximity operators. (See Search Help for more information). The list also uses two specific character replacement conventions: "*" which matches any multiple character string; and "@" which matches any single character.
The list is organized into five categories of potential causes of Persian Gulf veterans' illnesses: chemical, biological, nuclear/radiological, disease/epidemiological, and environmental.
aerosol* agent binary cbw chemical war* chemical weapon* cw gb gf lewisite mustard phosgene precursor@ sarin shipment stockpile tabun vx
abrin aerobic aerobiol* aeroso* agent amelyin ammodytox* anaerob* angiotens* anthracis anthrax antiser* antitox* arbovir* bacter* batrach* binary biologic* biopest* bioproc* bioreactor* bioregulat* biowar* bl3 bl4 bombesin* botuli* bradykin* brevetox* brucell* bubonic bungaro* burnetti* bw castor cbw charyb* chlamydia* cholerae clostrid* coccidio* containment system* conotox* coxiel* cyanobacter* dengue dermorph* diamphotox* dynorph* encephal* endothelin enterotox* francisel* fungi germ@ glanders hemorrhagic hepa histamin* immitis infect* kinin* latrotox* legionel* lyophil* melioid* melitens* microbiol* microencaps* microorg* modeccin moitotox* mycolog* mycotic neuropep* neurotens* neurotox* noxiustox* oxytocin palytox* perfring* pestis plague pneumonic pneumopil* precursor@ pseudomon* psitta* q fever ricin rickettsia* rift valley fever rihab taha saxitox* shigel* small pox staph* stockpile taipox* tetradotox* tetrodotox* textilotox* tosicolog* toxi* toxoid* tularemia tularensis variola venom* vibrio virol* yersinia*
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Nuclear/Radiological
centrifug* deuterium fissile fuel bundle* fuel element* fuel fabrication* fuel pellet* fuel rod* gaseous diffusion heavy water high level waste* lithium* low level waste* nuclear plutonium* radioactiv* reactor@ spent fuel thorium tritium* uranium*
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Disease/Epidemiological
aids amebi* ameobic amoeba amoebiasis amoebic ancylostomiasis angiostrongyliasis anthrax ascari* bacillus cereus bacterial bilharzia blastomyc* botuli* boutonneuse brucell* bubonic button ulcer campylobacte* capillariasis chagas disease chancroid chickenpox chikung* chlamydia* chloroquine cholera clonorchiasis congo crimean contagio* control cryptococc* cryptospo* cysticerc* dengue diarrh* disease@ dracunculosis dysentery dysentry ebola echinococ* e coli ecoli elephantiasis encephalit* encephalo* endemic enteriti* enterobiasis enterocholitis enterocolitis enterotoxi* enterovirus enzoo* epidem* epizoo* escherichia fansidar fascioliasis fever filaria* filovirus flea borne food poison* flu gastroenteritis giardia* glanders gonorrhe* grippe guinea worm haemorrhagic halofantrine helminthias* hemorrhagic hepatiti* histoplas* hiv hookworm humanitarian disaster infectious influenza kala azar lassa leishman* leprosy leprous leptospir* lice borne liver fluke loiasis louse lung fluke lyme malari* marburg measles mefloquine meningiti* meningo* monkeypox morbilli neurocysticercosis nyong onchocer* onyong opisthorchiasis oxyuriasis paragonim* paraparesis parasite infestations paratyph* perfringers pinworm plague pneumonic quarantin* rabid rabies rickettsia rickettsioses river blindness rotaviral rotavirus roundworm rubeola salmonell* sand fly sandfly schistosom* sexually transmitted shigell* sindbis smallpox staphylococc* std patients syphil* taeniasis tick borne tickborne toxoplasmosis trachoma treponema trichin* trypanosomiasis tubercul* tularemia typhi typhoid typhus uncinariasis vector venereal vibrio* viral infection water borne illness yersinia zoonosis zoonotic
adulteration agrochemical chlorination contaminat* defor* desalinization drinking water eutroph* fungicide heavy metal herbicide hydrology insecticide irrigation landfill night soil pesticide poiso* pollut* potable water reservoir reverse osmosis safe water sanitation sewage sewer* slum smog squatte* toxic urbanization vermin waste (but not "waste time" or "waste of" or "waste it") wastewater water distribution water pollution water shortage water suppl* water survey water system water treatment water use