Sentences with phrase «cause human hosts»

The new microbiota may trigger weight loss, says gastroenterologist Lee Kaplan of Massachusetts General Hospital, by sending chemical signals that cause the human host to burn more calories, which helps use up the body's fat reserves.

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Until recently, half of the human race died from infectious causes before adulthood, providing strong selective pressure for genetic alleles that enhance host defence but why are the genetic alleles that are most frequently associated with depression so common in the modern gene pool?

Marxism's lack of understanding of human nature, it's morally flawed call for violence, it's debasement of the individual to be subservient to the Party and to the State, the lack of curtailment on the state's power, and a host of other issues caused it to be a political failure as precedent to it's economic failures, which are legion.

The organism that causes toxoplasmosis is a parasite that uses cats as its primary host, but it can also infect humans and other mammals.

The virus «emerges» when human activity, such as habitat destruction, causes host - human contact.

Their findings, which have been published online in The Journal of Experimental Medicine, expand the type of gut - resident microorganism that can affect the health of their host and suggest that related parasites may cause gastrointestinal disease in humans.

«As far as I am aware, this is the first time that researchers have found that an invasive predator (such as the python) has caused an increase in contact between mosquitoes and hosts of a human pathogen,» said Nathan Burkett - Cadena, a faculty member with the UF / IFAS Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory in Vero Beach, Florida.

«As far as I am aware, this is the first time that researchers have found that an invasive predator (such as the python) has caused an increase in contact between mosquitoes and hosts of a human pathogen,» said Burkett - Cadena, a faculty member with the UF / IFAS Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory in Vero Beach, Florida.

Malaria causes the bodies of its human hosts to emit specific odours from the skin that make the hosts even more attractive to mosquitoes, which invites further bites and risks infection of more mosquitoes and wider transmission of the disease.

They next examined the protein content of the MVs and identified 8 bacterial proteins, all with predicted properties of virulence factors that can attack the human host and cause disease.

«Bird flu» is a phrase similar to «Pig flu», «Dog flu», «Horse flu», or «Human flu» in that it refers to an illness caused by any of many different strains of flu viruses such that the strain in question has adapted to the host.

Viruses are wily predators that can kill their hosts and cause lethal human diseases.

Last week, a judge in Verona dismissed a host of criminal charges against veterinary researcher and former politician Ilaria Capua, including allegations that she deliberately set off avian influenza outbreaks that also caused a human epidemic — a crime that would have been punishable with life imprisonment if proven.

When the dengue virus is transmitted to a healthy person, the change in the temperature of the host — from 28 degree Celsius in a mosquito to 37 degree Celsius in a human body — causes the virus to swell by 20 per cent.

The selective loss of large herbivores, for instance, is known to cause relatively systematic increases in abundance of rodents [71], which are thought to be particularly effective at hosting and transmitting human - borne zoonoses, thus driving landscape - level increases in rodent - borne disease [72].

«While we are only just beginning to understand the complex roles microbes play in human biology, it is clear specific changes in microbial flora are associated with — and sometimes cause or cure — disease in the host,» said Pollard while explaining her research focus.

These datasets will allow the characterization of how genetically different parasites that cause distinct types of human toxoplasmosis alter the expression of protein - encoding and miRNA - encoding genes in both the human host and the parasite.

IAVs circulating in avian and swine hosts are also important because of frequent interspecies transmission, which periodically causes human pandemics (e.g., pandemics of 1957, 1968, and 2009).

Infection with the factor CagA, which is translocated into host cells via the gastric bacterium Helicobacter pylori can cause chronic inflammation and is a major risk factor for gastric adenocarcinoma in humans.

These proteins can be comparatively tested to identify the most promising vaccine candidates, and to understand how the parasite interacts with the human host and cause disease.

It spreads within the host population efficiently, causing a range of diseases in humans, including congenital disorders and cancers.

Bleaching can be caused by a host of human - induced and natural factors such as (top) intense sunlight combined with elevated water temperature; (middle) diseases caused by bacteria, fungi, and viruses; and (bottom) coastal pollution that reduces water quality and increases susceptibility to bleaching.

Areas of focus include three major groups of human pathogens (Candida albicans, Cryptococcus neoformans, and the dimorphic fungi), obligate pathogens of diverse hosts (Microsporidia and Pneumocystis), and the wheat rust fungi (Puccinia sp) that cause current agricultural epidemics.

Malaria is caused by five different Plasmodium spp. in humans each of which modifies the host erythrocyte to survive and replicate.

One wonders how many human diseases are caused by perturbations in host - microbe interactions, and how we could use this knowledge to prevent and / or treat such perturbations.

As current therapeutics are limited, it is essential to define the immune evasion strategies of these fungal pathogens which cause life - threatening infections and at the same time to understand the immune response of the human host to these fungal pathogens.

The fungus that causes athlete's foot and other skin and toenail infections may have lost its ability to sexually reproduce as it adapted to grow on human hosts.

The fungus that causes athlete's foot and other skin and toenail infections may have lost its ability to sexually reproduce as it adapted to grow on its human hosts.

BPA has been shown to cause problems with human reproduction, metabolism, neurological function and a whole host of other problems.

Remove the cause (Undigested Foods) from faulty eating habits that constitutes it as an «Acid Forming Diet» which is poisoning humans on a cellular diseased level and you will eliminate a host of diseased conditions such as Digestive Disorders (Colitis, Crohns», Acid Reflux), Skin Diseases, Cancer, Heart Disease, Strokes, Alzheimers, Blood Disorders and countless of many other diseases that results from eating an «Acid Forming Diet».

BIO * 235, Microbiology (4 credits / 6 contact hours) $ $ Laboratory Course Fee Gen Ed Competencies: Scientific Knowledge & Understanding, Scientific Reasoning This is an introduction to general microbiology.The course is designed to meet the needs of pre-allied health students as well as biology or science majors.Topics include the structure, physiology, and molecular biology of microorganisms as well as the interactions between microbes and their hosts, including their role in the environment.Students also learn how microbes are studied and how they can cause disease and yet are essential to human well - being.

While JAK Inhibitors administered to humans are known to cause a host of serious side effects such as thrombocytopenia, anemia, and neutropenia, Apoquel side effects are generally considered as mild and typically include the following.

Problems Associated with Overweight Pets Just like in humans, excess weight can cause a host of health problems in small pets.

There are other species of tapeworm which use different animals as hosts and these can occasionally cause tapeworm infestation in humans.

It is of special concern because if a human ingests the egg of this tapeworm the intermediate host can develop in the human and cause serious disease.

Just like in humans, excess weight can cause a host of health problems in small pets.

Excessive weight causes a host of health problems including diabetes, osteoarthritis and cardiovascular disease in cats just like it does in humans.

In humans, skin abscesses are often caused by Staphylococcus infections, but in rabbits, they can be caused by aerobic bacteria (those that require oxygen to survive) including Pasteurella multocida, Streptococcus, Pseudomonas and Staphylococcus, and a host of anaerobic bacteria (those that do not require oxygen to survive).

If the treatment causes fleas to leave the host pet, the fleas may bite humans during the process of searching for another host.

It causes no symptoms in the vast majority of infested hosts, including humans.

Some can be passed to humans and some can cause significant disease and discomfort in their host.

When not treated immediately, they can cause severe damage to a human host and can even cause blindness.

canis prefers a canid host, however these mites can transiently infest and cause symptoms in some humans.

The game starts before the Ishimura planet cracker mining ship was overrun by an alien plague causing severe psychosis and mutation in their human hosts.

Malaria is caused by species of single - celled parasites in the genus Plasmodium, vectored by mosquitoes primarily in the genera Aedes and Anopheles between many vertebrate hosts, including humans.

The truth is that ALEC has crafted model legislation that misrepresents the science of climate change and hosted prominent climate science deniers at its conferences, and ALEC officials — including CEO Lisa Nelson — have refused to acknowledge or outright denied the scientific consensus that burning fossil fuels and other human activities are causing climate change.

A nonprofit, free - market think tank in Chicago with a $ 6 million annual budget, Heartland has been hosting conferences since 2008 for those dubious of the science confirming human - caused climate change.

While a host of dangerous climate change impacts have already begun to cause death and destruction and to exact a toll on human populations across the globe — a fact that Mr. Tillerson has been unwilling to acknowledge — there is no doubt that it is our children, their children, and future generations that will bear the brunt of suffering as a result of our increasingly climate - disrupted world.

Protozoan species of the genus Cryptosporidium, such as Cryptosporidium hominis and C. parvum, can cause diarrhea in human hosts who have ingested as few as 10 microscopic oocysts (egglike structures that are made of chitin, the same protein that forms the exoskeletons of ants and other insects) contained in feces or contaminated water.