Sentences with phrase «as infective»

Bacterial endocarditis, also known as infective endocarditis (IE) is a bacterial infection that first affects the bloodstream but will later ultimately settle into the heart lining, the heart valves, or within a blood vessel.

Doctors across the country are increasingly worried about the rise of bacterial infections attacking the heart valves of IV drug users — a condition known as infective endocarditis.

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Greaves» hypothesis, 7 the Infective Agent Theory, outlines a 2 - stage oncogenic process for childhood leukemia — an in - utero genetic mutation causing a genetic predisposition to cancer followed by a delayed exposure (known also as the Hygiene Hypothesis) to an infective agent that brings into effect the genetic tInfective Agent Theory, outlines a 2 - stage oncogenic process for childhood leukemia — an in - utero genetic mutation causing a genetic predisposition to cancer followed by a delayed exposure (known also as the Hygiene Hypothesis) to an infective agent that brings into effect the genetic tinfective agent that brings into effect the genetic tendency.7

«Based on experience in Saudi Arabia we know that this virus is not generally very infective, except in close conditions such as hospital waiting rooms,» Petersen says.

«Furthermore, if the intervention providing personal protection has killing capabilities such as walls sprayed, or nets treated with insecticides, the chances of mosquito survival to an age at which a previously - ingested parasite is infective, or a virus has reached a sufficient level of viremia to be transmissible, becomes yet slimmer because mosquitoes typically feed every 2 to 3 days, making at least one encounter with a protected person highly probable during the pathogen's incubation period.

This would make it difficult to use the lungworms to control toads - because if we made the worms more common or more infective, we'd cause problems for native frogs as well.

There have been numerous claims for an infective aetiology to CFS over the years, not least because, as in this sample, many patients report that their symptoms were triggered by an infective episode.

The infective larva do not progress to adult worms in people but the migrating larvae leave the intestines and find their way to other organs such as lungs, liver, or eyes and cause damage and disease in those locations.

Duodenal bacterial counts may be influenced by environmental factors, such as housing conditions (kennelled dogs tend to have higher bacterial numbers, perhaps associated with coprophagia) and infective load (such as endoparasites and naturally occurring enteropathogens in hot climates).

Warning: puppies are very vulnerable to infective diseases such as parvo when they are young as their immune system is still developing.

Contaminated hairs and skin debris shed into the environment remain infective for over a year, and act as a reservoir for reinfection.

Dogs can become infected either by ingesting infective eggs in the same way as roundworms through the environment or the tiny larvae can burrow into the skin.

Paratenic hosts, such as earthworms and field mice, ingest infective eggs and become carriers of larvae that arrest in somatic tissues.

In general, the risk of aerosol transmission increases with proximity and duration of exposure to the source; however, once aerosolized, certain pathogens may remain infective over long distances, depending on particle size, the nature of the pathogen, and such environmental factors as temperature and humidity.3

Mosquitoes carrying heartworm larvae bite dogs and inject the infective larvae into the dog under the skin or into tiny blood vessels as the mosquito takes its blood meal.

The Double Defense Heartworm Protocol means protecting dogs from mosquitoes which may transmit heartworms as well as from the infective larvae on the inside.

The cysts are infective as soon as they are passed, unlike other parasites where a lag period is necessary before the organism is infective.

The infective Giardia cysts can also be present on other surfaces contaminated with feces such as bathroom fixtures, changing tables, diaper pails, and toys.

It's the vaccine developers» best guess as to whether or not the current infective organisms are the same strain as the vaccine, a process similar to what happens the human flu vaccines.

Infective ticks, as small as the head of a pin, may inhabit urban and rural lawns and gardens, as well as fields and forests.

When the vets checked immune system markers they found a significant amount of the interferon - inducible Mx protein, a sign of an as - yet unidentified infective or environmental immunogenic trigger for the illness.

Infective or septic arthritis can be caused by a variety of microorganisms, such as bacteria, viruses and fungi.

Scheduled on the On Call Team by Supervisor to clean certain rooms immediately such as the Labor rooms, Patient rooms and Infective disease rooms which are contaminated, you had to wear gloves, caps, footwear, and gowns.