Sentences with phrase «deadly infections»

Case in point is the ongoing federal effort to encourage hospitals and other providers to protect patients from potentially deadly infections from antibiotic - resistant bacteria.

Many strains of bacteria are becoming resistant to even the strongest antibiotics, causing deadly infections and becoming a global health issue.

Thus far, such side effects seen in clinical trials have been minor, but it sometimes takes years of exposure to a drug before deadly infections show up, he says.

But a fight over ownership of flu genes is blocking the efforts to track deadly infections on the move.

Thousands of years later, the ancient therapeutic is being embraced by some hospitals because of its ability to kill bacteria and other microbes on contact, which can help reduce deadly infections.

I did not realize how deadly these infections are for male cats.

Instead he must rely on herd immunity — the collective protection from many diseases that only results when 95 percent of the population is vaccinated — to prevent potentially deadly infections.

«As a consequence of permafrost melting, the vectors of deadly infections of the 18th and 19th centuries may come back,» the scientists warned, «especially near the cemeteries where the victims of these infections were buried.»

The virus, which exists in Africa and on the Arabian Peninsula, often cause deadly infections in cows, sheep and goats, and usually lead to miscarriages in pregnant animals.

At the University of Zurich, Rolf Kümmerli investigates new drugs to stop deadly infections.

The continued emergence of deadly infections such as Ebola, MERS and SARS, as well as the terrorist use of anthrax in 2001 — when spore - laced letters sent to elected officials in Washington and the news media killed five people and sickened 17 others — made government leaders aware of the need for more and better BSL capacity, and they have since provided substantial, sustained funding to support such facilities.

«New centers help health workers fight deadly infections.»

«Our work shows that we can treat potentially deadly infections more effectively using antibiotics that are already available.

Cancers could be surgically reduced, but deadly infections often followed the operation.

But when they escape the intestines, they can cause particularly deadly infections in the blood and can form abscesses all over the body.

«Babies born with low levels of protective intestinal bacteria are at an increased risk of devastating and sometimes deadly infections,» said Michael Sherman, M.D., professor emeritus in the Department of Child Health at the MU School of Medicine and lead author of the study.

Paul Ewald points out that any conditions allowing germs to be transported from a person immobilized by serious illness to new human hosts can produce deadly infections.

When diseases like cancer and AIDS are impacting millions of people each year and rare but deadly infections like Ebola are moving faster than treatment, the race to make effective drugs becomes a sprint.

Now in a study published in the Journal of Proteome Research, scientists report that they have detected antimicrobial protein fragments in the lizard's blood that appear to help them resist deadly infections.

«Advances made against deadly infection complication, sepsis.»

Although the study's approach wasn't a sure bet, the researchers hoped to go further than any other gene therapy trial yet for this relatively common inherited disease that fills people's lungs with sticky mucus that promotes deadly infections.

While Ebola virus disease (EVD) is notorious for being one of the world's most deadly infections, it actually has a wide range of outcomes, where asymptomatic presentation may be as common as fatality.

Bacillus anthracis bacteria have very efficient machinery for injecting toxic proteins into cells, leading to the potentially deadly infection known as anthrax.

It's a co-operative game that has you and a couple of chums attempting to stop the spread of several deadly infections across the world, achieving victory by researching a cure for each one before the entire of humanity gets obliterated in horrible ways.

Just beneath the band, the sturgeon's body was severely constricted and the flesh was raw, a certain target for deadly infection and fungus.

Throughout sub-Saharan Africa, 70 million people are currently at risk of deadly infection.

Sept. 30, 2016 - All Sammy's Milk Baby Food powdered formula is recalled because it isn't manufactured according to federal regulations and has not been tested for Cronobacter, which can cause deadly infections in children.

CRE and CRKP can cause deadly infections such as bacteremia, pneumonia, and wound infections.

This drainage helps the lymphatic system fight deadly infections, destroys cancerous cells and disposes of cellular toxic products.

By increasing the pH of the stomach, PPIs also boost the risk of infection: studies published in JAMA in 2004 and 2005 reported that subjects on acid - suppressing drugs are nearly twice as likely to develop pneumonia, and nearly three times as likely to acquire a potentially deadly infection from the bacterium Clostridium difficile, as unmedicated subjects (although the overall risk is low).

The estimated 12 000 babies to be born in the worst - affected areas this month need to be exclusively breastfed, meaning that they get nothing but breast milk, which protects them from potentially deadly infections.

In addition, breastmilk may help prevent sepsis, a deadly infection.

We must extend our gaze to other more potentially deadly infections that lurk just over the horizon, and with the financial pressures on the NHS to make savings, now is not the time to release our grip.

The aim was to see how many animals predatory bacteria could save from a deadly infection.

To prevent these potentially deadly infections, hospitals traditionally use the blood - thinning drug heparin to block germ - attracting blood clots from forming inside catheters.

Bedsores, or pressure ulcers, affect over 2.5 million Americans, cost $ 11 billion annually and can lead to debilitating and deadly infections.

Quorum sensing controls bacteria's ability to cause deadly infections, allowing bacteria to secrete poisons, swarm and adhere to human tissue.

Deadly infection This clever Ophiocordyceps fungus depends on ants to reproduce and spread, but it has found an abundant host animal.

As a deadly infection, it could severely damage an ant colony.

In a separate effort at UPMC Mercy Hospital, rates of a deadly infection were reduced by educating patients about hand hygiene.

«Cancer support drug may help critically injured kids fight off deadly infections.»

They often live peacefully in our noses, but once Staphylococcus bacteria get under our skin, watch out for toxic shock, blood poisoning, or deadly infections.

Steven Pavletic, who heads the Graft - versus - Host and Autoimmunity Section at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, says the standard treatments — corticosteroids such as prednisone — «carpet bomb» the immune system, causing a host of side effects and weakening the immune response to potentially deadly infections.

Even worse, the bad cells were multiplying so rapidly that they were overtaking his healthy cells — making him harrowingly prone to deadly infections.

The bug doesn't bother most people, but it can cause deadly infections in people with AIDS or burns who have weakened immune systems.

Scientists at the University of Birmingham have discovered a unique mechanism that drives the spread of a deadly infection.

Dr. Fauci has made seminal contributions to the understanding of how HIV destroys the body's defenses leading to its susceptibility to deadly infections.

This evolutionary process meant devils with the right SNP variants would avoid the deadly infection.