Sentences with phrase «by infections through»

Tetanus commonly caught by infection through open wounds, and is especially common in dogs that go out bush, such as pigging dogs and when camping.

Not exact matches

It was prompted by what he later called «good infection» - being drawn to faith unawares through the friends he made and books he read.

Those guidelines do caution against blood - borne infections caused by multiple - use pigments, and the possibility of HIV / AIDS transmission through contaminated needles.

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.

What it is: A viral infection that's spread by skin - to - skin contact or through contaminated pool water, clothing, towels, or toys.

Microbes — good or bad — will generally enter a child's system through the mouth, pass through the throat and enter the intestines; thus, the digestive system is a baby's greatest vulnerability, by far, in terms of infections.

Other causes of nipple soreness from breastfeeding include: thrush (a yeast infection in your baby's mouth that can be passed back and forth from you to your baby unless treated); mastitis (a breast infection caused by bacteria that enters through the nipple or a plugged milk duct); the immersion of teeth (in which case your baby may unintentionally nip you with her teeth without realizing or to soothe her pain); and as your baby starts solids (when food residue may irritate your nipples).

Kids with a more severe infection may need treatment in a hospital so they can get antibiotics by injection or intravenously (delivered through a vein right into the bloodstream).

The Charity was established in 2005 by people who had been brought together through being affected by healthcare infections.

Whilst the government will struggle to meet the 50 % reduction of MRSA bacteraemias by March of this year, just adopting this simple culture change could reduce significantly the numbers of patients contracting a healthcare infection through this route.

Seeking one mechanism to explain the induction of cancer by many different agents, Huebner and Todaro had suggested that retrovirus oncogenes are a part of the genetic baggage of all cells, perhaps acquired through viral infection early in evolution.

«Our immune system is made up of specialised cells that move through blood and tissue, preventing disease and fighting infection by distinguishing between what is the body's own healthy tissue and what is foreign.

Participants were from the HPV Infection and Transmission among Couples through Heterosexual Activity (HITCH) study conducted at McGill and led by Franco.

Ebright: The primary risks are accidental release through accidental infection of a lab worker who then infects others — for which there are many precedents — and deliberate release by a disturbed or disgruntled lab worker, for which the 2001 US anthrax mailings provide a precedent.

Yet just when the message appears to be getting through — judging by a small but real reduction in antibiotic prescriptions — others are calling for an unprecedented increase in antibiotic use to clear the body of infections we never knew we had.

Despite ongoing efforts by U.V.A. and a handful of other U.S. hospitals to identify and isolate colonized patients, MRSA raced through the health care system virtually unchecked because most facilities lacked effective infection - control programs.

You reported research online showing how the mosquito avoids infection by the malaria parasite as it passes through its body...

You reported research online showing how the mosquito avoids infection by the malaria parasite as it passes through its body (11 December 2012, newscientist.com), with talk of bioengineering its immune system to prevent transmission altogether.

Among those who developed infections, researchers found a distinct set of 25 proteins in fluid samples they gathered by flushing about 2 teaspoons of saline through the participant's nasal passages.

Except for one case of infection through sexual intercourse, all cases were most likely transmitted by mosquitoes.

«Otherwise the worry is that we will have tried these drugs, including putting people through the potential risk of experimental treatments, and still be none the wiser about which are effective,» said Tom Solomon, director of the Institute of Infection and Global Health at the University of Liverpool in the United Kingdom, in a statement distributed today by the Science Media Centre.

Through mapping proteins that can restrict viral infections, the researchers found a protein called YTHDF2 that can help regulate the human herpes virus 8 by detecting the m6A modification on viral messenger RNA.

On Apollo 13, the aborted mission to the Moon, astronaut Fred Haise became feverish through infection by the bacterium, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, which rarely poses a problem on Earth unless the host has a suppressed immune system.

Vaccines prevent infection by priming the immune system to create antibodies that effectively block the lock, prompting the virus to reengineer the hemagglutinin key through chance mutation.

Bhandari hypothesizes that by inhibiting the regulatory protein RPTOR in infants, through drugs or other means, lung infections in premature infants could be prevented.

17 Up to a quarter of all women giving birth in European and American hospitals in the 17th through 19th centuries died of puerperal fever, an infection spread by unhygienic nurses and doctors.

The fact that the infection spread through the bloodstream from the chest to the intestines in most cases, and that the lungs themselves did not show any lesions in most cases, was used by the Soviets to trick people, says Walker.

«BnAbs are thought to be akin to signposts — that they point to a path that might be followed by a future HIV vaccine strategy through induction of bnAbs capable of preventing HIV infection,» said David Margolis, M.D., article co-author and director of the UNC HIV Cure Center.

The Zika diagnostics project in Brazil was brought underway by the DZIF through a fast track grant procedure in order to appropriately tackle the danger of emerging infections.

The researchers manipulated a nutrient in the drinking water of mice that is used by malaria parasites during an infection — just as a gardener might manipulate nutrients through fertilizers to favor certain plants.

Viral infections simultaneously reduce the amount of nutrients and materials available to larger organisms by killing microbial cells, but also stimulate microbial activity through the release of organic matter and nutrients, which provides increased biomass available for larger organisms including fish.»

Researchers at the University of the Mediterranean in Marseille, France, and their colleagues have discovered that viruses can fall ill through infection by other viruses.

Carried by infected Aedes aegypti mosquitos, Zika is largely transmitted through bites, but can also occur through intrauterine infection or sexual transmission.

By establishing an assay system where free virus infection is restricted and infection can only occur through cell - cell transmission, the researchers could then test whether a large selection of Nabs could prevent cell - to - cell transmission of different HIV strains.

One way they do this is by transporting the virus to the body's immune cells, without themselves becoming infected, through a process called trans - infection.

Through these protein interactions, the scientists not only gained insight into the viruses, they also uncovered a common set of host proteins that are targeted by various infections.

Anna Huttenlocher, University of Wisconsin, USA Neutrophils in the Tumor Microenvironment Neutrophils, Wounds, and Cancer Progression Stefan Kaufmann, Max Planck Institute, Germany Pathology and immune reactivity: understanding multidimensionality in pulmonary tuberculosis Constitutive BAK activation as a determinant of drug sensitivity in malignant lymphohematopoietic cells Kathryn Moore, New York University, USA MicroRNA -33-dependent regulation of macrophage metabolism directs immune cell polarization in atherosclerosis Lalita Ramakrishnan, University of Cambridge, UK Myeloid Growth Factors Promote Resistance to Mycobacterial Infection by Curtailing Granuloma Necrosis through Macrophage Replenishment Beth Stevens, Harvard University, USA Microglia: Dynamic Mediators of Synapse Development and Plasticity Do glia drive synaptic and cognitive impairment in disease?

They exist in all mammals and birds that have been examined, including humans, and become destructive only when their shape is altered, a change that occurs either through infection by an already infectious protein or through a genetic mutation.)

He proposed that the protein becomes infectious and destructive only when its shape is altered, and that this change occurs either through infection by an already infectious protein or through a genetic mutation.

Since HIV infection is spread primarily through sexual practices or by sharing needles, prevention messages and programs presented on this website may address these topics.

• Forge Life Science — Founded by President and CEO, Lillian Chiang, Ph.D., MBA, Forge was built on break - through concepts in the control of infection, which are now being pursued as broadly effective antiviral therapies.

Moving forward, the team will be looking for other drugs to test in mouse models of TB infection that can lower levels of miR - 33 to boost the pathways suppressed by TB through this tiny RNA.

Through a series of tests on an NDM - 1 Escherichia coli (E. coli)(denoted as NDM - HK), clinically collected by Dr. Ho Pak Leung, director of the HKU Carol Yu Centre for Infection, the team revealed that CBS can «tame» the superbug reducing it to almost sensitive strain which can be easily killed by commonly used Carbapenem antibiotics.

While infection of mice with B. burgdorferi recovered from any monkey (treated or untreated) was not generally productive, the recovery by xenodiagnosis and through the use of an in vivo culture system, of intact spirochetes transcribing RNA indicates that the persistent spirochetes recovered post-treatment are of comparable viability to those recovered from untreated primates.

A new study by scientists at the Gladstone Institutes shows that infection sites could affect the immune system's response to a virus and the way the virus spreads through the body.

This premature enthusiasm has more recently given way to caution as the technology has gradually been transferred to humans, with only limited short - term success.3 Finally, since HIV usually enters the body through mucosal surfaces — the vagina and rectum — augmenting an immune response at these portals of entry by using what scientists call mucosal AIDS vaccines might be an additional way to improve protection against infection.

To carry out our studies to address blood safety concerns over viral and parasite infections we also evaluate the utility of tests to detect and prevent TT of infections by characterizing the evolving dynamics of molecular and serological markers from acute viremia / parasitemia through seroconversion, followed by resolution of infection or establishment of long - term persistent infection.

In the case of malaria, the immune system is constantly trying to destroy the parasite to get rid of the infection, but the parasite is consistently managing to evade it by generating diversity through processes such as genetic recombination.

Women who might have been exposed to Zika by either traveling to a country where Zika is prevalent or through sexual contact with a man infected with Zika need to wait eight weeks before they try to get pregnant — whether or not they have symptoms of the infection.

In most of the cases, people get infected with hepatitis C by sharing unsterilised needles when injecting drugs, but the infection can also be spread by sharing razors and toothbrushes and occasionally even through unprotected sex.