Sentences with phrase «as human infections»

It can not be XMRV, since XMRV doesn't exist as a human infection.

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And to attribute human mortality to the fall of Adam is sheer nonsense, for guilt implies personal responsibility, and the idea of original sin as an inherited infection is sub-ethical, irrational, and absurd.

In terms of infection she still has to worry just as much if she was having sex with a boy; about contracting Herpes, Chlamydia, Gonorrhea or HPV, Human Papillomavirus.

The second infection that's also been on the rise is Syphilis, particularly amongst populations that are at higher risk to contract Human Immunodeficiency Virus or HIV, such as young men who have sex with men or injection drug using adolescence.

Over the years scientists have identified a number of anti-infective substances in human milk that may help fight respiratory and gastrointestinal infections, and such devastating conditions as acute inflammation of the intestines and colon, to which premature infants are particularly vulnerable.

Premature infants who are fed with human milk decrease their risks of a serious and life - threatening intestinal infection known as necrotizing enterocolitis, or NEC.

Exclusive human milk is the best way to prevent NEC as well as other types of illness and infection.

Even just a cursory Internet search shows that breastfeeding promotion materials framed in terms of «the risks of formula feeding» are currently being used by some state breastfeeding coalitions, two hospitals, two private corporations, the Departments of Public Health in California and New York, the City of New York, as well as The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) programs in at least five states... The United States Department of Health and Human Services» Office on Women's Health publishes a 50 - page guide to breastfeeding that points out that «among formula - fed babies, ear infections and diarrhea are more common».

«Human milk is especially critical for premature and sick infants, who are at tenfold greater risk for acquiring devastating intestinal infections, such as necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC), if they are fed formula instead of human milk.&rHuman milk is especially critical for premature and sick infants, who are at tenfold greater risk for acquiring devastating intestinal infections, such as necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC), if they are fed formula instead of human milk.&rhuman milk.»

Riordan, Jan and Kathleen Auerbach POCKET GUIDE TO BREASTFEEDING AND HUMAN LACTATION Jones & Bartlett, 2nd ed., 2001 The second edition of this small handbook covers such topics as maternal infections, birth control, breast lumps, and medications.

Never mind that the agency's own panel of advisers urged that the drug be rejected, citing concerns that it could promote emergence of drug - resistant bacteria and that the drug belongs to an class of drugs needed as a last line of defense against serious human infections.

In a new study published in Mucosal Immunology, researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) report that human breast milk serves as a reservoir for bio-molecules that help to resolve inflammation and combat infection.

IAS, WHO, UNICEF, UNAIDS, Consensus Statement, «Asking the Right questions: Advancing an HIV Research Agenda for Women and Children», dated 8 March, 2010 IBFAN, Press Release 2012 on the Right to Adequate Food, Digest of the «Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food to the Human Right Council (A / HRC / 19 / 59)» IYCN Project Preventing malnutrition of mothers and children within the context of HIV and emergencies (Haiti) UNICEF 2011, Levels & trends in child mortality, Report 2011 US Expert Panel Report & Recommendations to the US Congress and US Global AIDS Coordinator Prevention of Mother - to - Child Transmission of HIV, Jan 2010, Summary of successes and challenges of PMTCT, as well as recommendations for improved implementation UNAIDS 2011, Countdown to Zero: Global plan towards the elimination of new HIV infections among children by 2015 and keeping their mothers alive, 2011 - 2015 UNAIDS 2011 (with WHO and UNICEF) Global epidemic update UNICEF 2011, Levels & trends in child mortality, Report 2011

Variables were retained in the reduced logistic regression model when their presence was determined to confound the association between human milk feeding and infection or sepsis / meningitis, as defined by a change of > 5 % in the regression coefficient for type of feeding when the variable was removed from the full regression model.

Although a few reports of late onset GBS in infants whose mothers also expressed GBS in their breastmilk are described in the literature, with the standard medical treatment of breastmilk as just some infectious bodily fluid, no studies are to be found specifically comparing overall GBS infections in infants to presence or absence of exclusive human milk feeding.

To determine whether a completely human milk based diet during the first 10 days of life reduces the combined incidence of serious infection, NEC, and mortality as compared to formula feeding and 2.

Colostrum contains high concentrations of secretory IgA, the predominant immunoglobulin passed through your breast milk, lactoferrin, which acts as an antibacterial to prevent infection in human infants, and leukocytes, protective white cells.

Studies have shown that a protein in human milk aids in brain development, and breast - fed babies are less likely to get gastrointestinal infections and diarrhea, respiratory and ear infections or more serious diseases such as pneumonia, and there is a lower risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.

Yeast, formally known as Candidiasis, is the most common fungal infection in humans.

When comparing human and veterinary use of antibiotics, it failed to acknowledge the vastly different population sizes as well as the fact that livestock such as cattle and pigs weigh more than people and thus will require a larger volume of antibiotic to treat an infection than a person will.

Describing the deadly disease as a viral infection, the Health Commissioner said Monkey Pox is virus transmitted to humans from animals.

Hepatitis is a highly prevalent infection, the World Hepatitis Alliance estimates that as many as one person in 12 worldwide may be infected with the blood - borne strains Hepatitis B or C, which are passed on in similar ways to the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV).

In contrast, control mice expressing the normal human prion sequence resisted infection when exposed to same materials — just as humans seem to, even those who consume venison meat.

Risk of human infection is greatest in late spring and summer, in the northeast, as nymphs become adults.

Pseudomonas aeruginosa is usually harmless to humans, but in people with cystic fibrosis (CF) or who have weakened immune systems — such as those who have had an operation or treatment for cancer — it can cause infections that are resistant to antibiotics.

As the infection was unlikely to have been caused by direct gorilla - to - human transmission, «it would be surprising if there aren't more human cases», says David Robertson, a bioinformaticist at the University of Manchester, UK, who was part of the team that analysed the virus (Nature Medicine, DOI: 10.1038 / nm.2016).

In the United States, some of the most alarming outbreaks are occurring in the suburbs, where rising temperatures may help explain the spike in such tick - borne illnesses as babesiosis; hga (human granulocytic anaplasmosis), a potentially lethal flulike infection; and Lyme disease, the most common vector - borne disease in this country.

«As you look for methods to discern complex immune responses in human cells, more and more people look at what genes are turned on with infections or vaccination procedures.»

The current test is only able to analyze part of the human immune system, namely the B - cells but not the T - cells, which are needed as helper cells to fight the infection and whose activity indicates the presence of an infection.

The vaccination protects against infection from the two types of Human Papilloma Virus that cause seven in 10 cases of cervical cancer, as well as two other types of the virus linked with genital warts.

The discoveries reported in two independent studies in the American Journal of Human Genetics on January 7 add to evidence for an important role for interspecies relations in human evolution and specifically in the evolution of the innate immune system, which serves as the body's first line of defense against infecHuman Genetics on January 7 add to evidence for an important role for interspecies relations in human evolution and specifically in the evolution of the innate immune system, which serves as the body's first line of defense against infechuman evolution and specifically in the evolution of the innate immune system, which serves as the body's first line of defense against infection.

A panel of small molecules that inhibit Zika virus infection, including one that stands out as a potent inhibitor of Zika viral entry into relevant human cell types, was discovered by researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

«The human genes and pathways that Tat manipulates correlate well with symptoms observed in these patients, such as immune system hyperactivation, then weakening, and accelerated aging,» Dr. D'Orso said, describing the situation in which HIV infection leads to AIDS.

«We don't completely understand why those species occur during cholera infection, but that phenomenon may offer clues as to why we observe different species of gut bacteria among humans in different parts of the world.

Understanding how the virus operates offers a pathway to designing antiviral drugs as well as new vaccines to control bluetongue and related viral infections in animals and humans.

ST258 K. pneumoniae is the predominant cause of human infections among bacteria classified as carbapenem - resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE), which kill approximately 600 people annually in the United States and sicken thousands more.

The newly discovered viruses appeared in every family or genus of RNA virus associated with vertebrate infection, including those containing human pathogens such as influenza virus.

Fever is a first - line infection fighter in humans as well.

Unlike other human antibodies under investigation that recognize both Zika and the closely related dengue virus, the antibodies used in this study exclusively target Zika, demonstrating a high specificity that could be important in avoiding potential side effects — such as enhanced dengue infection in regions where both viruses are endemic.

Using a mouse model of HSV - 1 as well as autopsied samples of human adult and fetal tissues, investigators from Dartmouth College's Geisel School of Medicine found that antibodies against HSV - 1 produced by adult women or female mice could travel to the nervous systems of their yet unborn babies, preventing the development and spread of infection during birth.

Medicine has battled back many of the acute threats, such as infection, that curtailed human life in past centuries.

It turns out that each virus that's been studied and associated with cancer — such as hepatitis B with liver cancer or human papilloma virus with cervical cancer — evolves characteristics that allow it to target those genes immediately upon infection.

The researchers from the University's Institute of Infection and Global Health ranked the top 100 pathogens affecting humans and the top 100 affecting domestic animals using a system which, they believe, will help governments across the continent plan for risks associated with the spread of infectious diseases, including as a result of climate change, and for biosecurity.

Human females have 10 times as much of the bacteria as female macaques, so the engineered bacteria could reduce infection rates even more dramatically, says Hamer.

The data can also reveal when changes in human conditions — such as improved sanitation — influenced infection rates more than a pathogen's innate traits.

As of Aug. 30, 2013, the World Health Organization has reported 108 human cases of MERS - CoV infection, including 50 deaths.

It now seems very likely that a previously unknown form of infection is responsible for transmitting BSE in cattle and Creutzfeldt - Jakob disease in humans, diseases both belonging to the group known as transmissable spongiform encephalopathies.

«The use of human cellular membranes as a decoy has the potential to block a large family of related microbial toxins and reduce the severity of invasive bacterial infections in vulnerable patients,» said Escajadillo.

It notes some of the critical scientific questions regarding Zika that deserve further exploration, including: whether certain viral mutations occurred to facilitate its geographical spread; if different species of Aedes mosquitoes are capable of transmitting Zika and what that may mean for future transmission; what is apparently unique to Zika compared to other more well - known flaviviruses, such as dengue, that can explain why it can cause congenital infections, neurological conditions and encephalitis, transmit sexually and persist for long periods of time in multiple parts of the human body; and whether preexisting immunity to other related flaviviruses may impact Zika exposure and infection.

Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) also known as sexually transmissible diseases, sexually transmitted infections (STIs) or (infrequently) venereal diseases (VD), are diseases or infections that have a significant probability of transmission between humans by means of sexual contact.