Sentences with phrase «affected by pathogens»

«We know that the immune system declines with age, and people can be affected by pathogens they were once immune to.

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«This study is one of the first to show that gradual and subtle changes in forest structure and species composition, driven by climate change — as well as invasive insects and pathogens that act on a fraction of tree species within a forest — can also affect water yield.»

These monkeys have been shown to have a high susceptibility to infection by a variety of pathogens including Ebola virus and Lassa virus that affect humans, making marmosets useful for drug and vaccine testing.

Upper respiratory tract inflammatory diseases such as asthma and COPD affect more than half a billion people worldwide and are characterized by chronic inflammation that is aggravated by respiratory pathogens such as NTHi.

Previous scientific work suggested that sea star - associated densovirus (SSaDV) was the best candidate pathogen responsible for sea star wasting disease (SSWD) among about two dozen species affected by it.

Also, the Army's EIS «did not adequately document or characterize individual risk of exposure or infection, nor did it consider potential exposures to workers and others on the base itself or how the spread of a pathogen would be affected by population size and density,» according to a press release NAS issued about the study.

The new study, led by Walter Mothes, a Yale microbial pathogens expert, involved creating one culture that mixed healthy rat cells with cells infected by the murine leukemia virus, a cancerous pathogen in rats and monkeys that is not known to affect humans.

Ultimately, in forests not otherwise limited by energy or nutrients variability in moisture availability with natural and climate oscillations may drive establishment success between years (League and Veblen 2006), with indirect disturbance effects (e.g., fires, landslides, insect outbreaks, and pathogen attacks) greatly affecting long - term recruitment success (Clark et al. 2016).

Along with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other organizations around the world, the ASBMB is observing Tuberculosis Day 2018 by sharing research news from scientists expanding our understanding of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and a variety of perspectives on how the pathogen continues to affect our world.

Consequently, broad infection control measures that are designed to prevent pathogen transmission and infection, such as oversanitation and the overuse of antibiotics, may inadvertently affect human health by altering normal commensal transmission.

Important tips for understanding the microbiome and how all 7 microbiomes affect the body and how to balance them by purging pathogens and reseeding.

Inflammation is usually characterized by redness on the affected area, and can be triggered by many things, including overexertion, immune response to pathogens, injuries, and the effects of chemicals or radiation.

The eye doctor told me that I also may have Reiter's syndrome (also Reiter's disease) which is a medical condition typically affecting men, characterized by arthritis, conjunctivitis, and urethritis, and also caused by an unknown pathogen, possibly chlamydia.

Because the skin is an immune barrier like the gut, skin that is aging too fast or is affected by rosacea, psoriasis, or eczema is a sign the gut has become inflamed and overly porous («leaky gut»), which means it's allowing undigested foods, bacteria, yeast, and other pathogens into the bloodstream.

Climate change creates new risks for human exposure to vector - borne diseases by altering conditions — such as local temperatures, rainfall amounts, and warm season length — that affect the development and spread of disease vectors and the pathogens they carry.