Sentences with phrase «also infect humans»

However, what many people do not realize is that some parasites can also infect humans, sometimes with more serious consequences than in pets, so prevention is key.

These three species of ringworm are zoonotic, meaning they can also infect humans.

Roundworms can also infect humans; the most common cases are among children.

In addition to the common signs of intestinal parasites in dogs (diarrhea, vomiting, weight loss, loss of blood, lethargy), many intestinal parasites carried by our pets can also infect humans, and can even cause symptoms as serious as permanent blindness.

But aside from the dangers posed by intestinal worms in your cats, some intestinal worms can also infect humans, posing a health concern both to you and your felines.

The zoonotic disease called toxoplasmosis is spread primarily through contact with the ground outside or the more common contact with undercooked meat but this disease can also infect humans through feces and the litter box — NOT the cat itself.

Some types of Giardia can also infect humans.

Rabies can also infect humans, which is probably why it is one of the most well known viruses; Worldwide, 1 person dies from rabies every 10 minutes.

The specific mite that causes sarcoptic mange on dogs, called Sarcoptes scabiei, will also infect humans, cats and ferrets, although it prefers dogs.

The most serious forms of the disease are caused by Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax, but other related species (Plasmodium ovale and Plasmodium malariae) can also infect humans.

The organism that causes toxoplasmosis is a parasite that uses cats as its primary host, but it can also infect humans and other mammals.

The question now is whether the virus also infects humans and causes disease, he says.

We used the Virochip, a microarray designed to detect all viruses, to identify a new species of adenovirus (TMAdV, or titi monkey adenovirus) that caused a deadly outbreak in a colony of New World titi monkeys at the California National Primate Research Center (CNPRC), and also infected a human researcher.

However, the idea that XMRV also infects human populations has been met with skepticism.

Not exact matches

Why wouldn't it also use wacko humans to kill children for stupid reasons like being infected with devils.

These effects are also seen in human stomachs infected with H. pylori.

Benzoquinoline was also effective against vesicular stomatitis virus from the rhabdovirus family, which can infect insects, cattle, horses and pigs, and Zika virus, which is spread to humans by mosquitoes.

By connecting distant places, meanwhile, globalization permits the long - distance transfer of microbes along with their insect vectors and their human victims, as evidenced not only by the spread of HIV around the world, but also by North American cases of cholera and SARS brought by infected passengers on jet flights from South America and Asia, respectively.

The two reports also showed that Zika virus infected and damaged neuronal stem cells harvested from mice and humans.

Newburg and his collaborators are also studying a human - milk fat that seems to inhibit HIB from infecting human cells, and yet another milk component that prevents hiv from disabling the host's immune cells.

However, some human tumor cells may also be hard to infect with viral therapies, Dr. Cripe reasoned, and knowing how cells respond in those situations could also be important to improving cancer treatments.

Adenovirus 5 has 50 or so known relatives that infect humans and so in principle could also be used as a basis for vaccines, as could one from a chimpanzee.

«It appears that pregnant women infected with Zika can pass the virus to babies in utero and that newborns also may be susceptible to infection,» said Diamond, also an associate director of the university's Center for Human Immunology and Immunotherapy Programs.

They also found elevated granzyme A levels in blood samples taken from non-human primates infected with chikungunya, as well as from human chikungunya patients.

The Harvard researchers have also implicated two cancer - causing viruses: human papilloma virus, which can cause cervical cancer, and Epstein - Barr virus, which infects about 95 per cent of people and has been linked to several types of tumour.

In addition, measuring the likelihood of contact with the infected animals is also extremely difficult as it involves understanding human and animal behaviour.

But while researchers have previously been able to infect cultures of human hepatocytes with HBV, the cells» limited lifespan has made it difficult to study the virus, says Bhatia, who is also a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator and a member of MIT's Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research and Institute for Medical Engineering and Science.

They saw HIV - infected human immune cells, caught virus particles in the act of budding from such cells, and also found groups of free immature and mature viruses.

At the asylum and the army barracks, he and his team also infected patients with infectious syphilis bacteria taken from humans and animals, mixed with beef heart broth, distilled water, or spinal fluid.

Prusiner, together with Fred Cohen and his colleagues, also at UCSF, and Ruth Gabizon at Hadassah University Hospital in Israel, used human prions to infect a special strain of laboratory mice.

The team also collected blood samples, which confirmed that more than 25 percent of the monkeys had been infected with human astroviruses.

The new family tree can also help researchers examine related groups, such as the types of plagues that currently affect only rodents (such as Microtus strains and those that have been found in Chinese marmots)-- and what genetic changes might need to occur to allow them to infect humans.

EBV, one of eight known viruses in the herpes family to infect humans, is also one of the most common viruses and is best known as the cause of infectious mononucleosis.

The researchers also infected pigs with the human - derived H7N9 virus.

The animals, which live in close contact with humans across the region, carry a wide variety of astroviruses, pathogens that commonly cause diarrhea in people and can also infect the kidney, liver, and brain, researchers report this week in PLOS Pathogens.

According to Earl Brown, professor of medicine at the University of Ottawa, the more limited ability of the avian flu virus to infect cells in the human airway thus also appears to be associated with infection of the deep areas of the lung where oxygen and carbon dioxide are exchanged.

The chicken flu caused such deep concern not just because it had never before infected humans, but also because the world is poised for another flu pandemic.

In the December 2014 issue of Emerging Infectious Diseases the scientists who made this discovery also reported that about 40 percent of all the bugs were infected with T. cruzi and three of the humans had been bitten by infected bugs.

His laboratory and their collaborators have also identified human amyloid fibrils in semen that enhance the ability of HIV to infect new cells — a discovery that one day could help stem the global spread of this deadly pathogen.

Humans are also vulnerable through direct contact with the urine of infected animals.

Strengthening the link between Zika virus and microcephaly, scientists at UC San Francisco have discovered that a protein the virus uses to infect skin cells and cause a rash is present also in stem cells of the developing human brain and retina.

The flu virus also has the advantage of being able to infect a variety of hosts, from humans to birds to swine.

Inositol metabolism may also be involved in the pathogenicity of specific fungi that infect humans.

Cells with similar characteristics accumulate during normal aging as well as in younger persons infected with human immunodeficiency virus, suggesting that the process of replicative senescence is not an artifact of cell culture but is also occurring in vivo.

«It certainly doesn't take much for a virus that is perfectly adapted to infect humans to spread provided the conditions are ideal — and in the case of Zika it found a population that had never seen the virus before and so had no immunity to it, and also a bountiful supply of the insect that it needs to spread.

Despite its name, pseudo-rabies, also called «the mad itch,» is not related to rabies and does not infect humans, but to wild canines, including coyotes and foxes, the disease is fatal, so wildlife managers want to ensure that they eliminate as many hogs as possible.

Their preferred host is also the white - footed mouse but humans can accidentally become infected by nymphs.

Humans can also become infected from a bite by an adult tick.

Cytomegalovirus, also known as human herpes virus 5, is a common virus that infects 40 % of adults worldwide and 50 % to 80 % of Americans.

It delves into what would happen when humans succumb to their basest instincts, or as Freud would say, our Ids, and in a poignant series of events, also explores the fact that the ability to be infused with a rage is inherent in every human, whether infected with a virus or not.