Sentences with phrase «caused by organisms»

Most sexually transmitted diseases are caused by bacteria or viruses, but some are caused by organisms that are classified as completely different lifeforms.

Cats can also develop nodules on the skin of their abdomen from mycobacterial infections, which are caused by organisms commonly found in soil and water.

Even when they are treated, the damage caused by these organisms before they are killed is permanent.

Instead, most ear infections in dogs are caused by organisms or bugs that are naturally present in the dog's ear all the time.

A bacterial infection caused by an organism called spirochete.Syphilis belongs to a group of infections which are transmitted sexually.

Infections caused by the organism Staphylococcus aureus (Staph) rose by 2.4 %, and worryingly the increase is more prevalent in the resistant strain MRSA.

The disease is exactly as the name suggest — worms in the heart — and is caused by the organism

Kennel cough is most commonly associated with a bacterial infection caused by the organism Bordetella bronchiseptica.

In mice and rats, respiratory problems are often caused by an organism called mycoplasma, which can cause many respiratory signs and often leads to chronic respiratory disease.

Heartworm infection, caused by the organism Dirofilaria immitis, is spread by mosquitoes (at least 70 species of mosquitoes serve as intermediate hosts carrying these organisms).

Heartworm - Heartworm infection, caused by the organism Dirofilaria immitis, is spread by mosquitoes (at least 70 species of mosquitoes serve as intermediate hosts carrying these organisms).

Feline pneumonitis is caused by the organism Chlamydia psittaci.

This isn't a form of bacteria, but caused by an organism called a protozoa or parasite.

The cellular damage caused by the organism brings about inflammation, which is thought to increase the host's risk for HIV infection.

Not exact matches

In reality, they assumed, a deeper analysis of organisms shows that their behavior is also explained by efficient causes operating among their parts or on them from without.

No organism is totally determined by the efficient causes upon it, since every actual occasion has at least some iota of mentality or self - determination.

Sen. Dick Durbin will introduce a package of legislative reforms Tuesday designed to bolster the safety of school meals by requiring more stringent tests for disease - causing organisms and by giving school authorities more information about the safety records of food suppliers.

Infections in pregnancy can be caused by bacteria, viruses, or other organisms called protozoa.

Berkowitz concluded that caries is an infectious and transmissible disease primarily caused by streptococcus mutans.16 Accumulation of this organism to pathogenic levels results from frequent and prolonged exposure to cariogenic substrates.

However, the presence of any potentially disease - causing organisms in drinking water supplies is of concern, particularly to upstate communities that receive water from that part of the Catskill / Delaware system that has not been treated by the City's UV disinfection facility in Westchester County.

Caused by micro-organisms on the skin or body, they only become a problem when the organisms have an opportunity to breach the body's natural defences through an open or via intravenous devices.

Just taking antibiotics may disturb the ecosystem in our gut by killing not only disease - causing organisms but also good bacteria, like Lactobacillus acidophilus.

There it benefits marine organisms by helping to reduce the acidification caused by carbon concentrations that has been found to harm corals and shellfish.

«We are trying to understand the causes of aging by linking the mechanisms that control the oxidation of proteins at the cellular level with the mechanisms that determine the lifespan of the whole organism,» Apfeld says.

«But then we found that certain diseases, like irritable bowel syndrome, seem to be caused by imbalances in the organisms that communicate with the host.

B. subtilis is harmless to humans, but some dangerous bacteria like Bacillus anthracis, the organism that causes anthrax, also form spores by a similar mechanism.

Gluten intolerance is often caused by celiac disease, which makes the human organism sensitive to gluten proteins from certain cereals.

They are all caused by microbes — minute organisms which have fascinated us ever since the Dutch merchant Anton van Leeuwenhoek discovered the invisible but teeming world of «small life» in the 17th century.

The researchers were unsure whether the high diversity of leaf miners at Mexican Hat compared to other early Paleocene sites, where there is little or no leaf mining, was caused by insects that survived the extinction event in refugia — areas where organisms persist during adverse conditions — or were due to range expansions of insects from somewhere else during the early Paleocene.

The new work, by James Mitchell at the Harvard School of Public Health and colleagues, suggests that holding back calories causes cells to produce hydrogen sulfide, which somehow makes tissues more resilient and prolongs the life of laboratory organisms.

If an engineered organism mates with a wild counterpart, the transcription factors render the offspring unable to survive by activating genes that cause their cells to die.

As for releasing a synthetic organism into the environment — for example, a souped - up algae for energy production, which one ecologist worried could cause havoc — at least for now, the risks are not much different from those of more conventional genetically modified products, which are covered by existing rules, said science policy expert Michael Rodemeyer of the University of Virginia.

He found major changes in baby coral caused by these chemical additions to the water, both during the lifetime of the organisms and beyond.

«Recent studies in Africa and South Asia by people using sophisticated techniques show this organism is a very common, underappreciated cause of diarrheal disease in underresourced countries.»

Sunburn in living organisms is caused by ultraviolet (UV) light from the sun damaging the DNA in the cells.

Louca suspects that interactions between organisms that are not directly related to metabolic function, such as infection by viruses or «chemical warfare» between microbes, may be causing this variation of species that can not be explained based on environmental conditions.

Tropical storms make their mark, but even more damage is caused by other organisms such as parrotfish, sponges and fungi.

Researchers determined whom to contact based on records collected by a CDC surveillance project known as the Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network (FoodNet), which collects reports of lab - confirmed infections caused by 10 different organisms.

In some organisms, the assignment of a cell to the germ line is caused by an inheritance - based mechanism: Before there is even an embryo, the molecular content of some cells predetermines them to develop as either germ or soma.

These blood tests are inaccurate because they rely on antibody detection of antigens produced by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB), the organism that causes tuberculosis.

The mystery of why mycobacteria — a family that includes the microbe that causes TB — are extraordinarily hardy organisms is being unravelled by University of Otago, New Zealand, research that offers new hope for developing a revolutionary class of antibiotics to tackle TB.

Vaccines work by exposing the body to the disease - causing agent or a fragment of it, which primes the immune system to produce a flood of antibodies that stick to the infecting organism and block it from entering cells.

Until now, however, nobody has found any evidence that apoptosis is involved in diseases caused by more complex parasitic organisms.

Astronomers» current strategy for finding life on another planet is to detect the chemical composition of that planet's atmosphere, on the look - out for chemical imbalances which could be caused by living organisms.

The research group, led by molecular biologist Eran Pichersky of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, studied two model organisms that are easily manipulated in the laboratory: basil, which produces large amounts of eugenol, and the petunia flower, whose scent is caused by three aromatic compounds including isoeugenol.

Epigenetics is the study of changes in organisms caused by modifying gene expression — by alcohol, for example — rather than alteration of the genetic code itself.

Madrid, Spain: The antibiotic combination treatment piperacillin - tazobactam was significantly less effective than meropenem when treating potentially fatal bloodstream infections (BSI) caused by ceftriaxone - resistant Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae and should be avoided when treating these organisms, according to research presented at the 28th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID)[1].

An obvious question is how cellular senescence caused by deficient DNA repair finally affects the aging of a living organism.

The only time period that remotely resembles the ocean changes happening today, based on geologic records, was 56 million years ago when carbon mysteriously doubled in the atmosphere, global temperatures rose by approximately six degrees and ocean pH dropped sharply, driving up ocean acidity and causing a mass extinction among single - celled ocean organisms.

Although the burden of invasive disease caused by A. fumigatus is substantial, the basic biology of the organism is mostly obscure.