Sentences with phrase «by infectious diseases»

Through the prevention of damage that can be caused by infectious diseases, they also appear to benefit in terms of cognitive development.

Just like humans, animals can be affected by infectious diseases, some of which can be transferred to humans.

A team led by infectious diseases researcher Charles Chiu of the University of California, San Francisco, analyzed lung tissue samples from the dead monkeys and identified a never - before - seen adenovirus, which they named titi monkey adenovirus (TMAdV).

Now, a new study led by infectious disease researcher Dr. Sachiko Seo, formerly of Fred Hutch and now a physician at the National Cancer Research Center East in Chiba, Japan, and Boeckh and published last month in the journal Haematologica has found that like more «serious» viruses, rhinovirus can cause pneumonia — and when it does, it can be deadly to those recovering from transplantation.

Today more than 1 million people around the world are dying each year from tuberculosis, and after AIDS it remains the second most common cause of death by infectious disease.

The designation recognizes institutions that achieve standards established by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for antimicrobial stewardship programs led by infectious diseases physicians and infectious diseases - trained pharmacists.

For many years, Donald G. McNeil has been covering the grim toll wrought by infectious diseases in developing countries, and the global threat some pathogens pose in our increasingly interconnected world.

The researchers found that countries most heavily affected by infectious diseases generally had the lowest average IQs.

In the mid-1940s, the Department of Defense commissioned researchers, led by infectious disease scientist Charles Rammelkamp, to study whether treating strep with penicillin would also prevent rheumatic heart disease, then a serious problem among troops.

Pneumonia is one of the leading causes of mortality by infectious disease and is more common in certain at - risk groups of people, such as the very young or the elderly.

Our vision is a world where the burden caused by infectious diseases endemic in developing countries, such as malaria, dengue fever and pneumococcus, is substantially reduced through effective monitoring, control and, eventually, elimination.

Effective HIV medications, genotyping, and routine viral load surveillance have enabled primary care physicians to manage as outpatients those who were once complex inpatient cases treated by infectious disease specialists.

During her attendance in veterinary school, and with the sponsorship of one of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies, Dr. Gerleman was selected by an infectious disease expert to help design a definitive diagnostic test for a common parasite that causes life threatening disease in humans and animals.

Some underdeveloped countries are plagued by infectious diseases such as malaria and tuberculosis.

A: Vaccines have protected millions of animals from illness and death caused by infectious diseases.

The new work, by infectious diseases researcher Lawrence Corey and his colleagues at the University of Washington and the Fred Hutchison Cancer Research Center, both in Seattle, goes even further.

Created by a multidisciplinary panel led by infectious diseases, pulmonary and critical care specialists, the new guidelines also recommend that each hospital develop an antibiogram, a regular analysis of the strains of bacteria causing pneumonia infections locally as well as which antibiotics effectively treat them.

A new meta - analysis published online in PLOS ONE by infectious disease and epidemiology specialists from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania highlights significant gaps in hepatitis C care that will prove useful as the U.S. health care system continues to see an influx of patients with the disease because of improved screening efforts and new, promising drugs.

Now Fred Ledley and his colleagues from the department of paediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine are planning to test both methods in children whose life is threatened due to acute liver failure caused by infectious disease or metabolic disorders.

Health news in the U.S. is often dominated by cancer or diabetes headlines, making it easy to forget that 1 in 3 deaths in the world is caused by infectious disease.

I was particularly interested and impressed by their in - depth discussion of the link between nutrition and immunity, and their analysis of the health issues caused by the infectious diseases we all fall prey to over the course of our lives.

Vaccines have protected millions of animals from illness and death caused by infectious diseases.