Sentences with phrase «detect early infection»

Testing for the presence of microfilariae by reviewing blood smears is also used to detect early infection, the period before the adult heartworms has established residence in the arteries or heart and begun reproducing.

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«Unfortunately, the current standard laboratory test is often unable to detect Lyme disease at an early stage of the infection,» explains Hannes Stockinger, Head of the Institute for Hygiene and Applied Immunology of the Center for Pathophysiology, Infectionology and Immunology of MedUni Vienna.

This will improve the ability to detect an active infection more easily than before so that healthy people with Lyme disease antibodies in their blood do not receive unnecessary antibiotic treatment and so that appropriate treatments can be initiated at an early stage.

• During early and late states of infection, Zika RNA was detected in tissues, including the brain and male and female reproductive tissues.

• Zika RNA was detected in blood plasma as early as one day after Zika virus infection.

New tests to detect early Lyme disease — which is increasing beyond the summer months - could replace existing tests that often do not clearly identify the infection before health problems occur.

The two viruses come from the same family as several other mosquito - borne pathogens so the lab test may have detected the antibodies — possible holdovers from a yellow fever vaccination or earlier infections — and then falsely indicated he had those maladies instead of one of their viral cousins.

Primary infection screening programs can detect HIV earlier than other routinely used screening methods, as soon as 7 to 10 days after exposure.

Using assays developed at USAMRIID that detect the presence of IgM, an early protein produced by the body to ward off infection, the research team found evidence of dengue fever, West Nile, yellow fever, Rift Valley fever, chikungunya, Ebola, and Marburg viruses in the samples collected between 2006 and 2008.

Though agricultural intensification and climate change could pose new challenges for managing liver fluke transmission, early results in the afflicted Lawa Lake region are promising, with human infection rates in the worst - hit areas down to below 10 %, fish infection rates dropping from 70 % to below 1 %, and no infected snails detected.

After only a 10 - minute run, the device could detect the hepatitis B virus in blood serum at a level low enough to flag an early - stage acute infection, which is critical to help prevent its spread.

They used serum from 89 early Lyme patients, within the first month of infection, and 50 healthy controls to develop an algorithm to detect Lyme blood signatures.

In some cases, late onset of the disease can also occur if the infection is not detected at an early stage or if it is not treated with antibiotics.

Other important findings in the Nature Medicine article include: • Zika RNA was detected in blood plasma as early as one day after Zika virus infection.

An outbreak of infections would be difficult to detect because the earliest signs are flu - like symptoms.

But John Branda, associate director of the Clinical Microbiology Laboratory at Massachusetts General Hospital, and his colleagues published research in August about a test intended to detect Borrelia infection earlier than would any of the methods now commonly used for the diagnosis of Lyme disease.

In the early 1960s, Dr. London was a crucial member of the research team that first identified the hepatitis B virus and then developed first the blood test to detect infection and then the vaccine.

But with good owner attention to your dog's overall health status, these infections usually can be detected early and treated routinely.

It could be too early in the infection to detect antibodies, for example, or the cat may be unable to make antibodies against the virus.

The test is better at detecting the disease earlier in the life of the infection.

Your vet may also recommend spot checking your pet's urine every other month or so, for the first year after surgery, to monitor and to try to detect any urinary tract infections early.

You should groom your dog at least 3 times per week, even if he is short haired, as during the grooming you can remove debris from the coat and also detect lumps or skin and nail infections in the earliest stages.

Heartworm disease is a serious infection in animals, which are most common in pets, and might eventually become untreatable if not detected early.

Annual testing allows us to detect infections earlier and increase the successfulness of any necessary treatment.»

Routine blood testing helps veterinarians detect illnesses and infections early.

If your dog tests positive for heartworm there is treatment if the infection is detected early enough.

The AB test can detect larval infections with either male or female worms as early as two months post-infection, vs. the antigen test, which can not pick up an adult infection until roughly eight months post-infection.

The pre-patent period refers to the time in which a dog has early developmental larvae which can not be detected on a heartworm test, even though your dog is already harboring heartworm infection.

At this rate, an untreated mite infection can quickly spread, so it's important to detect the signs early on and get your pet checked.

We recommend that yearly blood work should be performed to detect infections and diseases, helping us to detect disease early.

The test strip simply changes color upon detecting the early signs of periodontal infections.

It's particularly important to detect American foulbrood infections early because there is no cure (yet), so the only thing that can be done is quarantining the infected colonies to keep the disease from spreading.

If not detected early enough, this can lead to deadly infection and complications.

Health centers funded through the national family planning program, including Planned Parenthood, save women's lives by detecting breast and cervical cancer at early stages, by offering testing and treatment for sexually transmitted infections, screening for high blood pressure, and providing immunizations.»

Because of Planned Parenthood, women are able to detect cancers early on, and to prevent sexually transmitted infections.