Sentences with phrase «causing disease in the animals»

Ames is more likely than other strains of anthrax to cause disease in animals immunised with the standard US anthrax vaccine, which is now being given to US troops.

Ian Keymer, a retired MAFF vet from Norfolk who has studied fluctuations in red squirrel populations, says parapox is less likely to kill grey squirrels because it only causes disease in animals under stress, caused by food shortages for example.

Tsetse are the insect vector of the trypanosomiasis parasite which causes disease in animals (with major knock - on effects on the farmers who are financially dependent on their livestock), and sleeping sickness in people (fatal when not properly treated).

The monkeys have been infected and the virus has been identified in their blood, but they are not causing disease in the animals.

In fact, so the story goes, the company was started because Dr. Belfield accused a nearby feed supply store owner of causing diseases in animals.

Not exact matches

If, as we have been told, heart disease is caused by consumption of saturated fats, one would expect to find a corresponding increase in animal fats in the American diet.

«This may contribute to antibiotic resistance, [and] scientists are more concerned about disease - causing bacteria that develops resistance in farm animals to then infect human beings.

Meat consumption has been linked to serious health risks including heart disease, stroke, and certain types of cancer, while an increase in consuming plant - based foods shows numerous health benefits, namely decreasing the risk of many of those diseases caused by excessive consumption of animal products.

They have a role to play in sustainable livestock production by preventing waste and inefficiencies caused by disease, and help provide a safe supply of food from healthy animals.

Officials said the change is needed to protect drinking water supplies from cryptosporidium, a parasite found in animal waste, and other disease - causing microorganisms.

«Chronic inflammation of the intestine is thought to be caused by abnormal interactions between gut microbes, intestinal epithelial cells and the immune system, but so far it has been impossible to determine how each of these factors contribute to the development of intestinal bowel disease,» said Hyun Jung Kim, Ph.D., former Wyss Technology Development Fellow and first author on the study, speaking about the limitations of conventional in vitro and animal models of bacterial overgrowth and inflammation of the intestines.

This region also contains the plans for the machinery that delivers these toxins to animal cells in order to cause disease.

Qi concluded that the peptide reduced nerve cell impairment caused by Huntington's disease in the animal model.

The paramyxovirus family includes virus that cause important diseases in humans and animals, such as measles virus, mumps virus, human parainfluenza virus, human respiratory syncytial virus, canine distemper virus, Newcastle disease virus, and Nipah virus.

Using animal models of precancerous polyps in the bowel, Chung and his team determined that certain types of immune cells within a chronically inflamed intestine can become rewired, causing them — paradoxically — to contribute to disease development rather than protect against it.

Morse is credited with creating the term emerging infectious diseases in the late 1980s to explain viruses that can exist for years in an animal host without causing illness.

Since the sexual reproduction stage of malaria only occurs in insects, Poinar said in the new study that they must be considered the primary hosts of the disease, not the vertebrate animals that they infect with disease - causing protozoa.

The viruses in question belong to two families: Filoviruses, which include Ebola and Marburg, and Bornaviruses, which causes neurological diseases in certain animals, such as horses.

Brabban says that because it takes so few E. Coli bacteria to cause disease, the challenge is to make sure any treatment kills all the E. Coli, whether in animals or on fresh foods.

Wild boar and red deer are key hosts of bovine tuberculosis — a chronic, infectious disease mainly caused by Mycobacterium bovis — in southern Europe, with the incidence of TB in these animals particularly high in certain areas of Spain.

Prions, whose normal function is unclear, are the likely cause of mad cow disease and similar brain disorders in animals and humans.

Researches are now able to understand for the first time the evolution of these parasites, causing disease in humans and animals.

In his book, The Cholesterol Myths: Exposing the Fallacy That Saturated Fat and Cholesterol Cause Heart Disease, Swedish physician Uffe Ravnskov asserts that as of 1998, 27 studies on diet and heart disease had been published regarding 34 groups of patients; in 30 of those groups investigators found no difference in animal fat consumption between those who had heart disease and those who did noIn his book, The Cholesterol Myths: Exposing the Fallacy That Saturated Fat and Cholesterol Cause Heart Disease, Swedish physician Uffe Ravnskov asserts that as of 1998, 27 studies on diet and heart disease had been published regarding 34 groups of patients; in 30 of those groups investigators found no difference in animal fat consumption between those who had heart disease and those who dDisease, Swedish physician Uffe Ravnskov asserts that as of 1998, 27 studies on diet and heart disease had been published regarding 34 groups of patients; in 30 of those groups investigators found no difference in animal fat consumption between those who had heart disease and those who ddisease had been published regarding 34 groups of patients; in 30 of those groups investigators found no difference in animal fat consumption between those who had heart disease and those who did noin 30 of those groups investigators found no difference in animal fat consumption between those who had heart disease and those who did noin animal fat consumption between those who had heart disease and those who ddisease and those who did not.

Nearly 200 cases of tularemia in the United States are reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention every year; most of them are caused by bites from ticks and flies and from handling animals infected from the dDisease Control and Prevention every year; most of them are caused by bites from ticks and flies and from handling animals infected from the diseasedisease.

BIG BITES An aggressive biter, the Asian tiger mosquito can carry a variety of pathogens that cause debilitating diseases in humans and some domestic animals.

Also, it should be noted that some fungi produce mycotoxins, substances capable of causing disease and death in both humans and animals.

In a study appearing June 29, 2015, in the journal Nature, the researchers compared thousands of human disease - causing mutations with the analogous sequences of some 100 animal specieIn a study appearing June 29, 2015, in the journal Nature, the researchers compared thousands of human disease - causing mutations with the analogous sequences of some 100 animal speciein the journal Nature, the researchers compared thousands of human disease - causing mutations with the analogous sequences of some 100 animal species.

A devastating cattle disease endemic in California's foothill country causes pregnant heifers to lose their fetuses in the third trimester, killing an estimated 5 % to 10 % of the state's annual beef calf «crop» — a loss of 45,000 to 90,000 animals.

They discovered non-human genomes carrying mutations that cause severe disease in humans, yet were benign in the animals.

In the current study, published in Nature Communications, the scientists created a new animal model of disease to determine if BBB leakage can cause autoimmunitIn the current study, published in Nature Communications, the scientists created a new animal model of disease to determine if BBB leakage can cause autoimmunitin Nature Communications, the scientists created a new animal model of disease to determine if BBB leakage can cause autoimmunity.

Many locals enjoy having the monkeys in the park, but wildlife officials are concerned about overpopulation caused by human feeding, the nonnative animals» ecological impact and the potential for interspecies disease transmission.

This bizarre and cruel practice was defended by the notion that rabies was caused by worms in the animal's mouth and the «operation» would stop the disease developing.

To find out if the new viruses actually cause disease, researchers can try to grow them in cell culture and infect animals with them.

When they do die, the cause is often an attack — hit by acar or mauled by a raccoon — or one of a number of infectious diseasesthat kill these turtles at all ages in seemingly equal proportions.While certain ailments, such as cancer and heart disease, strike olderhumans more often than they do younger ones, Congdon's animals don'tseem to become more vulnerable to disease as they grow older.

Although researchers have known that nitrites and nitrates at high doses can cause cancer in lab animals, de la Monte's results suggest that long - term, low - dose exposure to the compounds may be linked to chronic diseases in humans.

Yet despite achieving some encouraging results in animal models of MS, drugs that block the activity of TNF tend not work in patients with MS.. In fact, they usually make symptoms worse, and they may even have caused the disease in people predisposed to it, says Fuggein animal models of MS, drugs that block the activity of TNF tend not work in patients with MS.. In fact, they usually make symptoms worse, and they may even have caused the disease in people predisposed to it, says Fuggein patients with MS.. In fact, they usually make symptoms worse, and they may even have caused the disease in people predisposed to it, says FuggeIn fact, they usually make symptoms worse, and they may even have caused the disease in people predisposed to it, says Fuggein people predisposed to it, says Fugger.

The suggested focus should be in building the resilience of society and maintaining diversity in the «global microbiome» — only a fraction of which causes human or animal disease.

Roughly one - third of the bacteria are pathogens that can cause disease in plants, animals, or people.

Biologists know that animals with viruses already embedded in their DNA can have higher resistance to free - floating versions that cause disease.

The team believes this evaporative cooling process might be used to some degree by all mushroom - producing fungi, including those that cause disease in plants, animals, and humans.

The research reveals how natural biology, through evolutionary experimentation, can teach us new things about how animals naturally cope with conditions that would cause disease in humans.

To study diseases that cause blindness in people, scientists typically genetically «knock out» cone - related genes in animals like mice.

The team found that out of the nearly 150 pathogens studied, 75 caused visible symptoms in animals, such as seizures, lethargy, unprovoked aggression, or death, meaning signs of the disease could be easily detected.

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.

FAO estimates that the disease causes more than $ 2 billion in losses annually and is an economic disaster for the small herders and poor rural households that depend on the animals for milk, meat, wool, and leather both for their own use and for trade.

It cause animal brains to turn into a spongy mess in scrapie, a disease of sheep, and in bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE or «mad cow disease»), as well as in human prion diseases such as CJD.

Next - generation sequencing — the ability to sequence millions or billions of small fragments of DNA in parallel — has revolutionized the biological sciences, playing an essential role in everything from locating mutations that cause human disease to determining how a newly discovered animal fits into the tree of life.

Caused by the fungus Ophidiomyces ophiodiicola, snake fungal disease (SFD) can lead to symptoms including skin lesions, scabs and crusty scales, which can contribute to the death of the infected animal in some cases.

Although the bacteria shared common features (most live inside animals and many cause disease), the pattern of species carrying and lacking the gene suggested that the gene had been shuffled horizontally in the family tree, between distantly related species, not passed down from an ancient ancestor.

The Borna Disease Virus (BDV) causes neurological disorders in horses, sheep, and other animals in Central Europe.