Sentences with phrase «asymptomatic infections there»

So far, they haven't been able to find the virus's «animal reservoir» (the species it infects other than humans), or nail down how people are infected and how many mild or asymptomatic infections there are in the region.

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The reason doctors get concerned about asymptomatic urinary tract infections in pregnant women is that there is a high risk of such infections developing into serious and symptomatic kidney infections (pyelonephritis).

But he also cautioned that only the most serious infections may have been caught until now; there may be many milder cases, or asymptomatic ones, like that of a 4 - year - old boy identified in Beijing last week.

In fact, at least 5.6 d would be needed for an infectious agent with only a 2 - h incubation time and with the current city populations in the Greater Tokyo metropolitan area to cover the distance between any two cities using only secondary infections, even if there were up to 1 % asymptomatic individuals in the population (Fig. 4).

The CDC's guidance recommends Zika virus testing for all women with possible exposure during pregnancy, regardless of symptoms.16 The findings that there were similar proportions with birth defects among those with symptomatic and asymptomatic maternal infections supports the importance of screening all pregnant women for Zika virus exposure and testing in accordance with CDC guidance.