Sentences with phrase «cause infection in humans»

Urine from infected dogs can cause infection in humans through contact of breaks in the skin (wounds, etc.) or mucosal surfaces (mouth, eyes, etc.).

Neither protozoa has been known to cause infection in humans.

Codon usage bias is found in nearly all fast - growing organisms, including bacteria and yeasts that cause infections in humans.

Brandis and Hughes used Salmonella (a bacterium that causes infections in humans and animals) to measure the power of selection to choose the fittest individuals.

These spores are readily aerosolized and cause infections in humans and animals when inhaled [32].

Nicola was recognized for his longstanding research efforts to understand how herpesviruses cause infections in humans and animals and to identify novel drug and vaccine targets.

Not exact matches

While most strains don't cause disease in humans, the bacteria can cause respiratory tract and heart valve infections and sexually transmitted chancre sores in those with weakened immune systems.

What it does: Enterococcus bacteria typically live harmoniously in the human intestines and female genital tract, but are also the leading causes of blood, surgical wound, and urinary tract infections.

Autoimmunity is commonly caused by bacterial infections or overgrowth in the small intestine, in which partially digested food compounds are incorporated into bacterial cell walls and then the immune system, reacting to the bacteria, forms antibodies that also recognize food compounds, some of which might cross-react with human counterparts.

Such standards help eliminate product contamination by any number of microorganisms known to cause dangerous infection and disease in humans.

Researchers from Instituto de Medicina Molecular (iMM) Lisboa have created a chimera virus that allows the study of molecules to treat cancers caused by human herpes virus infection in mice models of disease.

Pseudomonas aeruginosa is usually harmless to humans, but in people with cystic fibrosis (CF) or who have weakened immune systems — such as those who have had an operation or treatment for cancer — it can cause infections that are resistant to antibiotics.

The vaccination protects against infection from the two types of Human Papilloma Virus that cause seven in 10 cases of cervical cancer, as well as two other types of the virus linked with genital warts.

An inflammatory protein that triggers a pregnant mouse's immune response to an infection or other disease appears to cause brain injury in her fetus, but not the premature birth that was long believed to be linked with such neurologic damage in both rodents and humans, new Johns Hopkins - led research suggests.

They found that the venereal syphilis - causing strains arose relatively recently in humans and are closely related to an ancient infection isolated in South America that gives rise to yaws.

But the new test found another seven, including a respiratory virus called human adenovirus B type 3A, which usually is harmless but can cause severe infections in some patients.

Candida albicans is a yeastlike fungus naturally found in small amounts in human digestive tracts, but its overgrowth in warm, moist environments causes burning, itching symptoms, thrush (rashes in the throat or mouth) in infants and those with weakened immune systems, and sexually transmittable genital yeast infections in men and women.

Trypanosoma cruzi, the parasite that causes Chagas disease, is divided into six strains, each of which differs in where they are found and in how important they are in human infections..

The virus has caused 1,564 reported human infections to date in several epidemic waves (SN: 3/22/14, p. 32), and 39 percent of people infected have died.

ST258 K. pneumoniae is the predominant cause of human infections among bacteria classified as carbapenem - resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE), which kill approximately 600 people annually in the United States and sicken thousands more.

«However, the fact that the emerging H7N9 virus has caused infection mainly in individual human cases suggests that it has not acquired all the necessary properties for efficient transmission among humans,» notes Dr. Kuiken.

The mouse model mimics aspects of the infection in humans, with high levels of the virus seen in the mouse brain and spinal cord, consistent with evidence showing that Zika causes neurological defects in human fetuses.

Clinicians treating patients suffering from Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) currently have no drugs specifically targeted to the MERS coronavirus (MERS - CoV), a virus first detected in humans in 2012 that has since caused 614 laboratory - confirmed infections, including 181 that were fatal, according to the World Health Organization.

The use of third - and fourth - generation cephalosporins for the treatment of infections caused by E. coli and other bacteria in humans is associated with resistance to these antibiotics in E. coli found in humans.

Even the briefest increase in airborne fine particulate matter PM2.5, pollution - causing particles that are about 3 percent of the diameter of human hair, is associated with the development of acute lower respiratory infection (ALRI) in young children, according to newly published research.

In humans, Salmonella Dublin has higher hospitalization and fatality rates than other Salmonella types; it causes systemic infection of body tissues, similar to typhoid.

Even the briefest increase in airborne fine particulate matter PM2.5, pollution - causing particles that are about 3 % of the diameter of human hair, is associated with the development of acute lower respiratory infection (ALRI) in young children, according to newly published research.

It notes some of the critical scientific questions regarding Zika that deserve further exploration, including: whether certain viral mutations occurred to facilitate its geographical spread; if different species of Aedes mosquitoes are capable of transmitting Zika and what that may mean for future transmission; what is apparently unique to Zika compared to other more well - known flaviviruses, such as dengue, that can explain why it can cause congenital infections, neurological conditions and encephalitis, transmit sexually and persist for long periods of time in multiple parts of the human body; and whether preexisting immunity to other related flaviviruses may impact Zika exposure and infection.

The research, published online today in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases, shows that poultry may be a source of human exposure to MRSA, a superbug which can cause serious infections and even death.

It thus seems possible that genetic fingerprints of infection may soon be able to provide more direct indications for the predicted role of certain bacterial pathogens in the cause of human cancers.

To explore the health consequences of bacterial quorum sensing in the crypts, the researchers experimented with an antagonist to turn off quorum sensing in chambers colonized by methicillin - resistant S. aureus (MRSA), an antibiotic - resistant strain of bacteria that causes human infection.

Cornish's team took a mating receptor gene from Candida albicans, a common cause of yeast infections in humans, and stuck it in the baker's yeast.

Prof Sharon Peacock, from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, said: «These findings suggest that the emergence of new types of E. coli is not uncommon, and is necessarily followed by successful competition with other types to become a dominant cause of infection in humans.

Tests in mice and nonhuman primates had shown TGN1412 to be safe, but when it was injected into humans — in a dose less than 1/500 of what was given to monkeys — it caused a massive release of infection - fighting T cells that overstimulated the patients» immune systems, resulting in multiple organ failure.

Four weeks later, mice that had received the DNA vaccine were exposed to the Brazilian strain of Zika virus known to cause fetal birth defects in mice analogous to those seen following fetal Zika infection in humans.

This shift has been traced to an increase in the human papillomavirus (HPV), the sexually transmitted infection that also causes cervical cancer.

While most West Nile Virus (WNV) infections in humans are asymptomatic and go unnoticed, the virus causes serious and sometimes fatal neurologic illness in some people.

FMD in people is unrelated to hand, foot, and mouth disease, a human infection with the same symptoms, caused by the Coxsackie A16 virus and several enteroviruses.

Studies over the past few years have suggested that toxoplasmosis infections in humans, too, may cause behavioral changes — from subtle shifts to outright schizophrenia.

Human papillomavirus (HPV) infection is the most common sexually transmitted infection in the United States, as well as a cause of various cancers, and a new study published online by JAMA Oncology estimates the overall prevalence of genital HPV infection in men ages 18 to 59.

A strain of bacteria that causes skin and soft tissue infections in humans originally came from cattle, according to a study to be published in mBio ®, the online open - access journal of the American Society for Microbiology.

A human protein known as prohibitin may play a significant role in infection of the nervous system by EV71, one of several viruses that can cause hand, foot, and mouth disease.

LINDAU, Germany — A vaccine to prevent infections of cancer - causing human papilloma virus (HPV) is currently approved for use in the U.S. in boys and girls and in the U.K.

Together, these communication and defense capabilities allow P. aeruginosa to form tightly packed layers called biofilms, which can cause respiratory tract infections in humans and are particularly dangerous to cystic fibrosis patients.

It had been thought that that was why it causes a devastating deep - lung infection in humans, but does not spread between people, because it does not bind and replicate in the nose.

In this test case, the aptamer specifically targeted group A Streptococcus, the bacteria that causes strep throat and invasive skin infections, while leaving human cells untouched.

A. hydrophila can also cause deep wound infections and sepsis in humans.

But the virus is closely related to picornaviruses, which in humans cause diseases such as polio, intestinal infections, jaundice, eye infections and regular colds.

A defective adenovirus (one that can not grow or cause adenovirus infections in humans) is sometimes used as a vector in HIV vaccines.

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