Sentences with phrase «by infected animals»

Because this virus was (and is) shed in huge numbers by infected animals, and because the virus is especially hardy in the environment, worldwide distribution of the virus rapidly occurred.

Sarcoptic mange can also be spread by contact with objects, such as blankets and quarters that have recently been used by infected animals.

However, not all bites by infected animals result in infection.

Because this virus is shed in enormous numbers by infected animals and is very hardy, it is present worldwide in every environment.

The basic transmission of the canine distemper virus is spread through secretions of bodily fluids, such as urine, blood feces as well as airborne transmissions, such as coughing and sneezing by infected animals.

There is also 150,000 dollars to help local governments pay for treatment once someone is bitten by an infected animal, which Ritchie said is expensive.

Leptospirosis is spread by contact with urine in infected animals, by eating infected animals, and rarely, by being bitten by an infected animal.

The saliva of an infected animal contains high concentrations of the virus, however, being bitten by an infected animal does not necessarily mean that the bitten animal, or human, will become infected.

People can get the disease by being bitten by an infected animal or by having infected urine come in contact with an open wound or mucous membrane.

Rabies is transmitted through a bite by an infected animal.

Rabies is spread when a dog is scratched or bitten by an infected animal.

Learn more about rabies and what you should do if your dog is bitten by an infected animal.

Spores can survive in bedding, grooming equipment and boarding facilities inhabited by an infected animal.

Bedding that was used by an infected animal probably should be disposed of in an outside garbage receptacle.

Not exact matches

Men, being social animals, find their behavior inescapably infecting and infected by the behavior of other men.

«It's spread by a virus, you pick it up from contact from body fluids from an animal or person that's infected.

He added the risk to the UK is low: «It can only really be picked up by direct contact with an animal or someone who's infect so people in the UK are quite safe.»

According to the CDC, people usually get E. coli infections from «eating undercooked, contaminated ground beef,» however you can also become infected through «person to person contact in families and child care centers,» from drinking raw milk, after swimming in or drinking water that has been contaminated with sewage, and by having contact with infected farm animals.

Combing the genetic data from a transmission study in ferrets, a team led by Thomas Friedrich, a professor of pathobiological sciences at the University of Wisconsin - Madison School of Veterinary Medicine, found that during transmission, when one animal is infected by another through sneezing or coughing, the process of natural selection acts strongly on hemagglutinin, the structure the virus uses to attach to and infect host cells.

«Several studies have measured parasite infection in urban animals, but surprisingly we are the first to measure whether wild birds living in a city were more or less infected by a parasite and a pathogen, as well as how these infections are linked to their physiological stress,» said Mathieu Giraudeau, a post-doctoral associate who previously worked with Kevin McGraw, ASU associate professor with the School of Life Sciences.

GOING VIRAL The diversity of viruses carried by such animals as rhesus macaques (one shown) hints at the number of viruses capable of infecting humans that are yet to be discovered.

To find out why, Palese's team charted 13 early immune reactions in infected animals, but they were unaffected by temperature.

A good model system for research is provided by Oesophagostomum dentatum, a roundworm which infects the large intestines of pigs, slowing the animals» growth and leading to significant economic losses.

Malaria infections might be brought under control by managing the eating habits of infected people or animals, according to a new study.

Previous studies have demonstrated that rabies, a fatal disease transmitted by the bite or scratch from an infected animal, still kills approximately 60,000 people every year.

-- Hyperimmune globulin, prepared by purifying and concentrating plasma of immunized animals or previously infected humans with high titers (concentrations) of neutralizing antibody against Ebola virus, which have been shown to be protective in monkeys but are not currently available and would not be expected before mid-2015.

It fatally infected half the otters in a third cluster, and for all 105 animals, Toxoplasma - infected animals were four times more likely to be killed by sharks as uninfected ones.

Nearly 200 cases of tularemia in the United States are reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention every year; most of them are caused by bites from ticks and flies and from handling animals infected from the disease.

When given to animals infected by a virus similar to the one that causes measles, the compound prevented illness.

This strain can infect people who may be exposed by contact with infected animals, by drinking raw milk, or by consuming other contaminated food products.

In the case of a disease like heartworm, which is transmitted by mosquitoes and infects both wild animal populations and companion animals, there is some natural variation in both drug coverage and mixing.

Using a combination of human or specially engineered mouse cells in vitro and in vivo animal models, study senior investigator Judy Lieberman, MD, PhD; study lead investigator Farokh Dotiwala, PhD, with a team lead by the Brazilian parasitologist Ricardo Gazzinelli, DSc, DVM, found that when an immune killer cell, such as a T - cell or natural killer (NK) cell, encounters a cell infected with any of three intracellular parasites (Trypanosoma cruzi, Toxoplasma gondii or Leishmania major), it releases three proteins that together kill both the parasite and the infected cell:

The fact that this bacterium is found in cattle means that these animals can be a reservoir for human tuberculosis and that humans can become infected with both M. bovis and M. tuberculosis by drinking unpasteurised milk and eating meat that has not been properly tested.

West Nile virus has wreaked havoc mostly on bird populations, but humans and a variety of other animals can become infected as well when bitten by a mosquito that previously dined on an infected bird.

Kernbach's project opens new territory by testing the effects of light on physiological factors that control how diseases that can infect humans might hopscotch among animals, says Jenny Ouyang, of the University of Nevada, Reno.

* Two small lab vials of Yersinia pestis, the cause of plague, is an acute bacterial infection transmitted to humans and some domestic animals by fleas that come from infected rodents.

In a teleconference held by Nature today, Kobinger said it was «quite remarkable» that they could rescue infected animals that had advanced disease, which he called «a very important step forward in the fight against Ebola virus.»

Caused by the fungus Ophidiomyces ophiodiicola, snake fungal disease (SFD) can lead to symptoms including skin lesions, scabs and crusty scales, which can contribute to the death of the infected animal in some cases.

When the wheat grass was consumed by hamsters, the animals were infected with the disease.

In their latest study, Potash and colleagues describe the efficient and reproducible transmission of chimeric HIV from infected male mice to uninfected females via mating, providing the first report of HIV transmission by coitus in an animal model.

The bug can be transmitted to humans through contact with infected animals or by eating infected products such as milk or cheese.

While researchers could not identify how a particular animal became infected, treponemal infections are known to be transmitted by contact with the skin lesion of an infected individual, so a pet macaque could potentially pick up the bacteria, said Lisa Jones - Engel, a UW research assistant professor of anthropology who led the study.

By the eighth day, a time when the three control monkeys infected with a common human flu virus were recovering, the experimental animals were so sick that they had to be euthanized.

CWD is caused by a misfolded protein called a «prion» that can infect animals through animal - to - animal contact or via contaminated environments.

Taking advantage of infected patients, proprietary animal models of infection and new technological advances in the field of static and dynamic imaging, Immunopathology Unit tackles unresolved issues that include the means by which innate and adaptive immune cells traffic and function within the normal, cirrhotic or cancerous livers.

Fleas may become infected by feeding on such animals and can then transmit the bacteria to others when they feed again.

[D] Some attenuated Type I - infected animals have detectable parasite in brain regions early during acute infection, decreasing to undetectable levels (average of uninfected indicated by black dashed line).

His claim that animal protein is unhealthy is supported primarily by an experiment on lab rats infected with hepatitis C virus and fed casein, a highly processed form of one of the protiens found in milk.

I read on a well known medical website that even by «touching a farm gate where infected animals pass through may be enough to infect your skin with ringworm».

Those skills come in handy after a failed experiment by a corrupt pharmaceutical firm causes three satellites to crash and unleash a pathogen that greatly enhances the size and predatory instincts of the animals it infects.