In Asymptomatic Carrier, Heath begins with a phone call to a flag fabricator, slowly revealing the fact that he is looking for a flag to wave above what has become his home on the otherwise abandoned North Brother Island.
Plowe is trying to develop surveillance methods that hit the «sweet spot,» by which he means sensitive enough to detect very low parasite loads
in asymptomatic carriers — microscopy is too crude — but portable enough to use in the field.
Not exact matches
Dr Heather Mortiboys, Parkinson's UK Senior Research Fellow from the University of Sheffield, explained: «We demonstrated the beneficial effects of UDCA
in the tissue of LRRK2
carriers with Parkinson's disease as well as currently
asymptomatic LRRK2
carriers.
If confirmed
in subsequent studies, isolating
asymptomatic carriers could potentially prevent thousands of cases of HA - CDI every year
in North America,» the study concludes.
But
asymptomatic C. difficile
carriers may also play a role
in disseminating spores because they can contaminate the environment and caregivers» hands, and because they are not detected are not placed under isolation precautions.
The team will now analyze examples of norovirus infection within the families of the symptomatic
carriers, and use this data to identify the virus factors and host factors that are key
in converting the norovirus infection from
asymptomatic individuals to symptomatic infections.
«Atrophy of the hippocampus, a region of the brain crucial for memory, is a common feature of AD, although it may also be detected
in asymptomatic individuals as well as healthy adult
carriers of the ApoE ɛ4 allele,» explained Andy Simmons, PhD, of the Department of Neuroimaging of the Institute of Psychiatry of King's College London.
At study entry, serum transthyretin levels were modestly lower
in patients with transthyretin amyloidosis than
in healthy volunteers, a finding that was consistent with reports showing lower transthyretin levels
in patients with transthyretin amyloidosis than
in either
asymptomatic disease
carriers or healthy controls.36
The clinical screening of
carrier subjects has led to the detection of two additional cases of acromegaly (see details below),
in addition to the two index cases, and to date, 16 R304 *
carriers have been shown to be
asymptomatic carriers.
A
carrier for a recessive condition is
asymptomatic and has a pathogenic genetic variant
in just one of their two copies of the associated gene.
Working
in the kitchens of the upper class, she left a trail of disease
in her wake, until one enterprising and ruthless «medical engineer» proposed the inconceivable notion of the «
asymptomatic carrier» - and from then on Mary Mallon was a hunted woman.
If the presence of one of those parasites is established, but treatment is not effective, the presence of
asymptomatic carriers, which are
in contact with the rabbit (s) should be considered.
In fact, it's estimated that more than 35 % of normal healthy dogs and 18 % of healthy cats (most of which eat commercial pet food) are already
asymptomatic carriers.
A small study
in the UK showed 16 % of young
asymptomatic GSDs to be homozygous for the mutation, with a further 38 % being
carriers.
A clinical ophthalmologic exam will only tell the clinical status of that individual dog on the day of the exam — it can not tell if the dog will develop a problem
in the future, and it can not tell if a dog is an
asymptomatic carrier of an inherited eye disease.
It also has several potentially fatal complications and the capability to cause persistent infections
in populations of
asymptomatic carrier horses.
As
in many herpes infections found
in other species, adult animals can live for years with no apparent signs; these are called «
asymptomatic carriers.»