Sentences with phrase «between infection with viruses»

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Overall, HPV is the most common sexually transmitted infection in the United States, with one 2007 JAMA study detecting the virus in 27 % of the nearly 2,000 women tested between the ages of 14 and 59.

In recent years research has increasingly indicated that there is a possible connection between infection with a common herpes virus, herpes simplex virus type 1, and Alzheimer's disease.

Last year, however, concerns about the virus skyrocketed following the link between Zika virus infection with microcephaly in Brazil.

But the episode makes epidemiologists fear there could be undiscovered milder cases of infection by the virus, perhaps in younger people with no additional health problems, allowing the MERS virus to evolve adaptations that will help it spread between humans.

In the new work, Luisa Pereira of the Institute for Research and Innovation in Health - University of Porto (i3S), Anavaj Sakuntabhai of Institut Pasteur - Paris and colleagues studied the genetics of 411 patients admitted with dengue virus infection to three hospitals in Thailand between 2000 and 2003.

The researchers found that the anti-cancer drug romidepsin increased the virus production in HIV - infected cells between 2.1 and 3.9 times above normal and that the viral load in the blood increased to measurable levels in five out of six patients with HIV infection.

The Zika outbreak sweeping across the Americas has coincided with a surge of devastating birth defects, but links between these defects and infection by the virus have not been firmly established.

«In addition to microcephaly, infection with Zika virus in adults can lead to destruction of myelin, a mixture of proteins and fatty substances that insulate nerves to speed electrical communication between neurons, a condition called Guillain - Barre syndrome.»

Influenza viruses are prevalent worldwide, and it is estimated that more than 200 000 people in the United States are hospitalized each year for respiratory and heart conditions, illnesses associated with seasonal influenza virus infections.14 Previous epidemiological studies on associations between influenza infection during pregnancy and ASD reported mixed results.

FeLV (Feline Leukemia Virus) and FIV (Feline Immunodeficiency Virus Infection) are viral infections that are spread between cats by prolonged contact with saliva or nasal secretions.