Disease caused by an infectious agent (5)

I believe the answer is:

virus

(Other definitions for virus that I've seen before include "Organism causing disease, or malicious program in computer" , "Cause of computer malfunctions?" , "Microscopic infectious agent" , "computer problem" , "Disease carrier or computer bug" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.

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