Sentences with phrase «when tuberculosis»

This information, combined with work on contemporary tuberculosis, highlights the significance of mixed - strain infections, particularly when tuberculosis is highly prevalent.

Using genome sequencing, researchers from the University of British Columbia, along with colleagues at the Imperial College in London, now have the ability to determine when a tuberculosis (TB) outbreak is over.

From the 1870s through the 1940s, when tuberculosis was raging across Europe and the Americas, TB patients were sent to sanatoriums where they were prescribed rest and plenty of fresh air.

Safe abortions will never go away as they are still needed to save life (even in the early 1900s doctors had to abort babies so at least the mother could live when tuberculosis was the leading cause of death and it was terminal for a pregnant mother).

Not exact matches

The last he accepted as a result of his involvement in the terrors of the second world war (described in The Plague and The Rebel) and the other two when he had to face the possibility of death from tuberculosis (discussed in his earliest writings).

When she died, the certificate attributed her death to a combination of tuberculosis and starvation.

There he was a great favorite of his tutor, L. J. Potts, a lifelong friend who raised money among the dons to send White to Italy when he was stricken with tuberculosis.

At one point when I was without real work, our three month - old daughter became deathly ill with tuberculosis.

When my appetite retreated further — I had contracted active tuberculosis, although I wouldn't know it for another year — I just started making everything richer and sweeter.

Farage expanded on his remarks on Friday morning during a chaotic walkabout through the centre of Clacton - on - Sea with Carswell when he said that migrants suffering from all serious medical conditions, including tuberculosis, should be banned from settling in Britain.

When people are too afraid access care, there is a risk to public health from untreated conditions like tuberculosis and from unvaccinated children.

Although the bacterium normally causes a skin infection, MRSA can be fatal when it leads to more invasive infections, such as pneumonia, sepsis and meningitis — causing more deaths in the U.S. than HIV, viral hepatitis and tuberculosis combined.

Less than 5 per cent of the world's children are fully immunised when you add BCG (for tuberculosis), measles, rubella, polio, hepatitis B (hep B), Haemophilus influenzae type B (Hib), pneumococcal and rotavirus vaccines.

When you launched GHIT the focus was on poverty - exacerbating diseases prevalent in developing nations — HIV, malaria, tuberculosis and neglected tropical diseases such as leprosy and Chagas disease.

«We hope to establish exactly when and where the transformation into the disease we call tuberculosis took place,» says Martin.

But when they tallied the bone lesions that are characteristic of tuberculosis, they found that only bovids with origins in Asia — like bison, bighorn sheep, and musk ox — were afflicted.

Among the greatest challenges when treating life - threatening tuberculosis infections is the increasing resistance to antibiotics.

After Franklin's death, Sharp nearly became another victim when he came down with extrapulmonary tuberculosis.

Malama used a standard 15 MIRU - VNTR loci - method for the genotyping of M. tuberculosis when he studied the epidemiology of M. tuberculosis in the Namwala district.

To be useful against tuberculosis in the real world, however, an antibiotic must be absorbed by the gut and eventually reach the lungs when taken orally — something that fidaxomicin can not do.

In addition, when the scientists tested lansoprazole against a wide range of other bacteria, it proved to be highly selective for M. tuberculosis.

DNA analysis of lung tissue and CT scans of these mummies revealed that more than half of the 265 mummies had tuberculosis when they died.

Subgroups of tuberculosis (TB)- causing bacteria can persist even when antibiotics wipe out most of the overall population.

Studies in several countries have demonstrated that the tuberculosis vaccine BCG, when given early in life, confers some protection against acute leukaemia (Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, vol 96, p 389).

When the mammal died, she determined the animal was infected with a novel tuberculosis pathogen, Mycobacterium mungi, closely related to the TB pathogen infecting humans in West Africa.

The Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria, the other big player, is in the midst of a «replenishment drive» that is asking wealthy countries to donate $ 13 billion at a moment when the United States and many European countries are facing political uncertainty.

When mice that lack the sigF gene are infected with M. tuberculosis, the bacteria thrive for eight weeks.

Acromegaly, some cancers, pheochromocytoma, tuberculosis or severe infections can also show unwanted sweating when they previously did not suffer from this issue.

When kefir was first recognized as a health rink several centuries ago, however, it was first acknowledged for its capability to treat tuberculosis.

In a study involving mice bred to be susceptible to tissue iron overload and hence to tuberculosis, treatment with lactoferrin significantly reduced the burden of tuberculosis organisms.7 And mice injected with Candida albicans, another iron - loving organism, had increased survival time when treated with lactoferrin.12 Lactoferrin is plentiful in raw milk.

Fissures can also develop when a person has syphilis, tuberculosis, a weak immune system, anal cancer, and inflammatory bowel conditions, such as ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease.

Fennel appears to increase the efficacy of the antibiotic, streptomycin when used against tuberculosis, although it shows no effect on the disease - causing bacteria themselves.

Many years later, when that girl grows up (to be voiced in English by Emily Blunt), Jiro will meet her again and fall in love with her, only to see their future threatened by the tuberculosis epidemic that swept Japan between the two world wars.

Bright Star (PG for mature themes, sensuality, smoking and mild epithets) Oscar - winner Jane Campion (for The Piano) wrote and directed this 19th Century costume drama about the three - year romance of poet John Keats (Ben Whishaw) and his neighbor Fanny Brawne (Abbie Cornish) which ended prematurely when he contracted tuberculosis and died at the age of 25.

When his wife finally succumbs to tuberculosis, he holds an extravagant funeral, in keeping with the traditions of a higher ranking Samurai.

He began to die when he was twenty - one, but tuberculosis is slow and sly and subtle.

In the winter when Sunja was thirteen years old, Hoonie died quietly from tuberculosis.

Christophe Cox — co-founder and CEO of APOPO, a Tanzania - based nonprofit organization that trains African giant pouched rats to detect landmines and to detect tuberculosis — recounts the genesis of the organization, when co-founder Bart Weetjens began contemplating whether the rodents he kept as pets could be taught to find landmines, and drafted his friend, Cox, to help explore and realize this vision.

When his owner died in 1858 from tuberculosis - only two short years after their partnership began - the dog followed the funeral procession to the Greyfriars Churchyard in Edinburgh and refused to leave his grave.

Violent scenes in computer games are supposed to densensitise us, but when Lucy Prebble had to help a man dying of tuberculosis she was prepared

Mr. Fung owned a car - mechanic shop in Hong Kong and was recuperating from tuberculosis when he first took up seal - carving in his mid-20s.

A self - taught artist, he sketched and painted for pleasure from an early time, but it wasn't until the 1940s when a long battle with tuberculosis disrupted his life and job as a bank official, that he began painting seriously, and in 1951 he began exhibiting his work in public.

Why emphasize improving mental health when pressing threats such as Ebola, Zika, tuberculosis, and HIV grab headlines?