Sentences with phrase «asymptomatic carriers»

Commentary: Active Surveillance, Isolation of Asymptomatic Carriers of Clostridium difficile at Hospital Admission

Reptiles are often asymptomatic carriers of Salmonella.

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.

... Longtin et al have shown the possible benefit of using active surveillance testing and isolation of asymptomatic carriers for preventing HA - CDI.

Repeated fungal cultures are the only way to know if the infection is fully resolved as animals can remain asymptomatic carriers after an infection.

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.

If your vet suspects your cat is a chronic asymptomatic carrier, he or she will routinely culture your pet to find out for sure.

Vets do this in order to prevent further inspection, and also to slow the spreading of the disease by asymptomatic carriers.

Because Cheyletiella mites can be killed by flea products, the disease is diagnosed less often in temperate climates where year - round flea control is the norm.3, 5 The mites may also be difficult to find because asymptomatic carriers exist, further allowing the incidence of this disease to be underestimated.

They are considered asymptomatic carriers.

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.

It also has several potentially fatal complications and the capability to cause persistent infections in populations of asymptomatic carrier horses.

Maintenance hosts are often asymptomatic carriers of Leptospira organisms, whereas incidental hosts often exhibit severe clinical signs.

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.

We estimate that forty percent of all cats contract bartonellosis sometime in their lives and many cats are asymptomatic carriers for long periods of time.

Some greyhounds can be silent, asymptomatic carriers of at least one or more of the tickborne diseases.

There is a 50 % chance that the child will inherit a single pathogenic variant from one parent and will also be an asymptomatic carrier.

Mary Mallon, an Irish immigrant who worked her way up through domestic service to the coveted position of cook to some of the wealthier families in New York at that time, would otherwise only be remembered for her unique contribution to medical history in that doctors decided she was an «asymptomatic carrier» of typhoid and used that assumption as grounds to keep her imprisoned on North Brother Island for three years.

Bartoletti chronicles the case of cook Mary Mallon (aka Typhoid Mary), an asymptomatic carrier of typhoid fever who infected dozens.

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.

Affected cats are homozygous (have two copies of the defective gene), whereas cats with one copy of the defective gene are asymptomatic carriers.

An asymptomatic carrier is defined as a host for an infectious agent who does not show any signs at all that they are infected.

Your cat can very easily become an asymptomatic carrier on this fungal infection.

It is estimated that around 20 % of domestic felines are asymptomatic carriers, meaning that they carry the ringworm fungus without exhibiting any sign of it.

Even dogs exhibiting no signs of illness can be contagious, asymptomatic carriers to other dogs.

Most dogs with the infection are asymptomatic carriers (don't show symptoms).

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.

Cats can also be asymptomatic carriers.

Whether she is an asymptomatic carrier or shows signs of the condition, she should not be bred further, nor should any females born of male carriers.

This sex - linked recessive gene is carried on the X chromosome, which means that it is transmitted by the females, who are often asymptomatic carriers.

Many dogs will be asymptomatic carriers, never developing any signs of illness.

(Although it's uncommon, some cats are asymptomatic carriers, shedding the virus all the time.)

Both dogs and cats can be asymptomatic carriers.

Tests may be run to detect the genetic mutation responsible for hypomyelination, though some dogs can be asymptomatic carriers of the genetic defect.

Many dogs and cats will be asymptomatic carriers, never developing any signs of illness.

Asymptomatic carriers are especially problematic in multi-animal environments such as animal shelters or kennels as they can spread the ringworm fungi to many other animals and people while showing no clinical signs.

These dogs can spread ringworm to other animals or people despite having no obvious skin lesions, and are called «asymptomatic carriers».

As in many herpes infections found in other species, adult animals can live for years with no apparent signs; these are called «asymptomatic carriers.»

Breeders should take care not to breed affected dogs, though the possibility of an asymptomatic carrier female remaining undiagnosed is always a risk for passing on the gene.

Solo exhibitions, and two - person shows include: The Hollow Coin, presentation with Simone Subal Gallery at Art Basel Statements, Basel (2016); Backup, (solo), Simone Subal Gallery, NY, NY (2014); Asymptomatic Carrier, (solo) Frieze Frame with Simone Subal Gallery, NY, NY (2013); Post Holes (solo), Simone Subal Gallery, NY, NY (2012); Bcc: (with Brendan Meara), Roots and Culture, Chicago, IL, USA (2011); and Econoline 1, (with JJ PEET) Videotage Gallery, Hong Kong, China (2007).

If you keep getting warts, then you'll know you still carry the virus — but if you don't get warts, then either you cleared the virus or you're merely an asymptomatic carrier!

Unfortunately, without symptoms (i.e., when warts aren't present), there is no FDA - approved method for testing for the virus, so you can't know for sure if someone is an asymptomatic carrier.

Unfortunately, there is no way for him to know for sure if he's cleared the virus or if he's an asymptomatic carrier.

About 5 percent of U.S. residents are estimated to be asymptomatic carriers of E. histolytica; worldwide this estimate climbs to about 10 percent.