Sentences with phrase «environment during infection»

Working closely with numerous groups both within and outside the Broad, Livny uses these methods to gain insights into the physiological responses of diverse pathogens to the host environment during infection, uncover inter-species differences in the expression of conserved functions that drive pathogenicity, and define signatures of transcriptional responses to antibiotic exposure that enable rapid diagnosis of antibiotic resistant strains.

This switch, using a process called S - thiolation, appears to be used by the bacteria to respond to changes in the environment during infection and might protect it from harm, researchers report this week online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Early Edition.

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Intriguingly, the efficiency of viral transmission declined during estrus in mice, providing evidence that the hormonal environment in the female reproductive tract can impact on host susceptibility to HIV infection.

To identify which proteins were likely turned on or off during Salmonella infection, the team grew the bacteria either with rich food that satisfied all their nutritional needs or with nutrient - poor food that mimicked the kind of stressful environment the microbes find themselves in while infecting someone.

Deletion of TLR3 alters the pulmonary immune environment and mucus production during respiratory syncytial virus infection.

The aims are to study the adaptive response and damage / repair mechanisms of the foetus and newborn to a poor pre - and perinatal environment as during severe preeclampsia (asphyxia, hypoxia, growth restriction), chronic intrauterine infections and perinatal insults related to hypoxia and inflammation.

Environmental factors such as maternal infection or exposure to toxic chemicals during pregnancy may heighten the risk in ways that aren't yet understood, and the environment may combine in other ways with genetic factors after birth to cause the condition.

These include poor diet; substance abuse; too little sleep and rest; too many social, emotional or physical pressures; serious or repeated injury; chronic illness; repeated infections such as bronchitis or pneumonia; allergies; exposure to a toxic environment; and a mother with Adrenal Fatigue during gestation and birth.

Those repeats are very important; the adult mites are killed during the first treatment, but eggs that remain in the fur or the environment will hatch and the larvae will grow and lead to a new infection cycle.

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