Sentences with phrase «caused by pathogens»

These include incredibly common infections, as well as those caused by pathogens you might have heard of but probably don't associate with sexual transmission.

[50] A veterinarian from the National Animal Poison Control Center suggests that the diarrhea in animals that raw feeders attribute to detoxing could be caused by pathogens such as Salmonella, E. coli, Clostridium and Campylobacter.

The primary sign of kennel cough is a dry - sounding, spasmodic cough caused by pathogens that induce inflammation of the trachea (windpipe) and bronchi (air passages into the lungs).

Infectious diseases, such as distemper, are caused by pathogens, including bacteria, viruses, parasites or fungi, which spread from one animal to another.

Another possible explanation could be that your cat has an inflammation of the throat, which can be caused by pathogens such as bacteria or viruses.

Devastating diseases caused by these pathogens to pre - and post-harvested crops threaten human health and the stability of global economies.

Between 1990 and 1998 the populations of several frog species crashed due to chytridiomycosis infection (chytrid) caused by the pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, but Mahony's surveys suggest that the frogs are re-establishing.

Male - pattern baldness may turn out to be something that's also caused by a pathogen rather than genetics — certainly worth investigating!

Leptospirosis is a bacterial infection caused by the pathogen Leptospira.

In Chinese Medicine (TCM), autoimmune disorders are caused by a pathogen that leads to an imbalance in Yin and Yang which causes the body's Yang to injure the Yin.

At this point we do not know if this disorder is being caused by a pathogen or something else.

Not exact matches

He also explained that there are several different types of pneumonia which can be caused by viral, bacterial, or fungal pathogens.

These studies helped illuminate some of the molecular mechanisms by which these fungal pathogens cause disease in the banana.

That's why he spent $ 50 million of his own money developing the prototypes and testing them in Third World villages, and they work, and we have to get the word out because 50 percent of all human illness is caused by waterborne pathogens.

This milk, pasteurized to remove pathogens caused by these poor conditions, offers no nutritional value.

A new understanding as to how plants defend themselves against some pathogens that cause crop diseases is proposed by researchers from the University of Hertfordshire to help scientists breed new, more successful disease - resistant agricultural crops.

The infection, caused by the fungal pathogen Ophidiomyces ophiodiicola, can cover snakes» bodies with lesions...

Leprosy, a devastating chronic disease caused by the bacterial pathogen Mycobacterium leprae, was prevalent in Europe until the late Middle Ages.

Researchers at the University of California, Davis, and in the Netherlands have discovered how a group of three closely related fungal pathogens have evolved into a lethal threat to the world's bananas, whilst an international consortium led by scientists from Wageningen UR (University & Research Centre) has unravelled the DNA of the fungus that causes black Sigatoka disease in bananas.

Millions of illnesses and more than 1,000 deaths every year in the U.S. are attributable to foodborne illness caused by known pathogens, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Instead, extra genes picked up by some pathogens can cause different strains to have wildly different effects on the immune system, even in the same person, researchers report January 11 in PLOS Ppathogens can cause different strains to have wildly different effects on the immune system, even in the same person, researchers report January 11 in PLOS PathogensPathogens.

S. aureus was the most common pathogen, causing 28 percent of bloodstream infections, closely followed by E. coli, which was found in 24 percent of patients with infections.

Many diseases are caused either by an invading pathogen or degradation of a cell's internal structure.

The damage was inconsistent with that caused by two known cattle pathogens, Borna disease virus and lyssavirus, VLA researchers report in the 12 June Veterinary Record.

The approach of targeting a host response required by a pathogen to cause disease rather than targeting the microbial pathogen is gaining wide support in the medical community.»

In Germany, Campylobacter has by now become the most common bacterial pathogen to cause intestinal infections.

Wheat stem rust is caused by a fungal pathogen.

The study, conducted by Rose and an international team of researchers, focused on rotavirus, a pathogen found in human sewage, which is suspected of causing more than 450,000 deaths globally each year.

Based on necropsy evidence and sampling for a plethora of pathogens, the team diagnosed hemorrhagic septicemia, or fatal blood poisoning, caused by Pasteurella multocida type B bacteria, the researchers report January 17 in Science Advances.

If this was «the first big pandemic with disseminated Yersinia pestis in humans,» as Johannes Krause, of the University of Tübingen's Institute for Archaeological Sciences, asserted at the briefing, then previous plagues, such as the sixth - century Plague of Justinian, were either caused by a completely different pathogen or by a strain of Y. pestis that proceeded to go completely extinct.

The symptoms of many diseases are caused by unwanted cell death, and the pathogens could be triggering abnormal cell suicide.

Considering how prevalent foodborne illness is, many doctors are going to see patients with symptoms caused by foodborne pathogens.

They searched through 60 years of scientific and newspaper reports to determine two things: first, whether the pathogens cause visible disease symptoms or death in wildlife, and second, whether human outbreaks were preceded or accompanied by evidence of the disease in animals.

The results hint that other states of the prion may be the cause of infection or that prions are a by - product of an infection triggered by some other, as yet unidentified pathogen.

«We were able to demonstrate that the changes induced by this pathogen are different from those caused by other pathogens, such as «Escherichia coli»,» researcher María José Gosalbes remarks.

The development of next - generation probiotics to reestablish colonization resistance and eliminate potential pathogens from the gut is warranted and will reduce health care — associated infections caused by highly antibiotic - resistant bacteria.

Oral phage therapy has demonstrated to be a feasible and effective tool in the control of infections caused by different bacterial pathogens.

«There are many diseases, not only Cryptococcosis, in which pathogens — bacteria, viruses, fungi or parasites that can cause disease — survive by deliberately hijacking the immune system in this way.

The model estimated costs of 15 foodborne pathogens that caused outbreaks in restaurants from 2010 — 2015 as reported by the CDC.

«Fishing line not only causes coral tissue injuries and skeleton damage, but also provides an additional surface for potential pathogens to colonise, increasing their capacity to infect wounds caused by entangled fishing line,» Dr Lamb says.

More basic research is needed, but we are hopeful that this medication could one day change the way that we treat severe influenza and possibly other pathogens that cause disease by a similar mechanism.»

«These sequences then become the targets for a far narrower set of follow - up gene function studies in F. graminearum by reverse genetic experimentation to pinpoint the genes essential for the disease - causing abilities of this pathogen.»

A protein secreted by cells infected with dengue virus can cause dangerous leakage of fluid from blood vessels, and new research published in PLOS Pathogens supports a primary underlying mechanism: disruption of a molecular barrier that lines the vessels.

Encephalitis can be caused by a large number of viruses, bacteria and parasites, and identifying novel pathogens in wild animals is a huge and often insurmountable challenge.

A team of international researchers has uncovered a mechanism by which plants are able to better defend themselves against disease - causing pathogens.

The Bioinformatics Resource Centers (BRC) for Infectious Diseases were created to serve as database resources for the integration of research and surveillance data being generated by these DMID - sponsored resources and by other primary investigators working on infectious diseases caused by different groups of human pathogens and their insect vectors.

The research reported in PLoS Pathogens suggests that the endemicity of any microbe, caused by genetic specialization, could be a marker for future extinction.

Systemic bacterial infections such as those caused by Salmonella are highly regulated and complex processes that include sophisticated offensive and defensive strategies by both pathogen and host that are orchestrated by virulence factors.

In a typical immune response, for instance, inflammatory proteins called cytokines will be released by immune cells at a site of inflammation and then other immune cells will use these cytokines like a trail of breadcrumbs to home in on the site of infection and destroy the pathogens that are causing it.

• Diseases caused by bacteria • What bacterial genomes look like • Genome sequencing technology • Mechanisms of transmission and resistance • Genomic epidemiology — tracking the spread of bacterial pathogens • Antimicrobial resistance