Sentences with phrase «exposure to infections in»

Veterinarians recommend that whelping be done at home to avoid the chance of exposure to infection in a medical setting.

Exposure to Infection It's also essential to consider exposure to infection in this group of residents.

Not exact matches

The social avoidance and anhedonia (the inability to feel pleasure in normally pleasurable activities) characteristic of depression move energy resources to ghting infection, and the hypervigilance characteristic of anxiety disorders is linked to protection from attack and subsequent pathogen exposure.

Healthcare providers advise measles vaccine at the age of 12 -15 months (in the form of MMR) to prevent measles in children; yet some babies develop active infection after exposure to an infected case.

Exposure to smoke increases a child's risk for illness and infection, but the immune - fighting cells in breast milk help protect a baby from those illnesses.

Babies and Germs While many parents prefer to use antibacterial products to ensure that their baby stays healthy, the fact is that babies need some exposure to bacteria in order to strengthen their immune system and build antibodies for infections they may get later in life.

Plus, if a baby is breastfeeding as his primary source of nutrition, his exposure to organisms in food and water that can cause stomach infections and diarrhea is limited.

To help prevent your child from joining the growing statistics of chronic health problems, early gut healing and continued gut health efforts are worthwhile, especially if your child expresses any of the symptoms of concern discussed in this book, has been exposed early to antibiotic drugs, has had early exposure to formula feeding, or has experienced multiple GI infectionTo help prevent your child from joining the growing statistics of chronic health problems, early gut healing and continued gut health efforts are worthwhile, especially if your child expresses any of the symptoms of concern discussed in this book, has been exposed early to antibiotic drugs, has had early exposure to formula feeding, or has experienced multiple GI infectionto antibiotic drugs, has had early exposure to formula feeding, or has experienced multiple GI infectionto formula feeding, or has experienced multiple GI infections.

But did you know that exposure to tobacco smoke or even high levels of air pollution can increase the risk of ear infection in small children?

The concerns for the presumed exposure, infection in pregnancy, and neonatal microcephaly has led some countries in central and south America to issue travel and pregnancy warnings.

Exposure to secondhand smoking can cause a vast array of health and respiratory symptoms and issues in young children, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, including coughing, wheezing, breathlessness, and acute lower respiratory infections.

«The best explanation for what we are seeing is that frequently, after exposure to HIV, a few cells in the genital tract are infected, without establishment of a systemic infection,» says senior investigator Eric Hunter, PhD, professor of pathology and laboratory medicine at Emory University School of Medicine, Emory Vaccine Center, and Yerkes National Primate Research Center.

How ridiculous, those critics said: Since 60 to 70 percent of children catch a strep infection at some point, naturally those with OCD or tics would, like everyone else, show evidence of exposure in their blood.

Exposure to live poultry is the main infection route, with 82 percent of sick people in the first wave reporting recent contact with

«We can now start to study how different tissue barriers are wounded in real time by infection, radiation, drug exposure or even malnutrition, and how and when they heal in response to new regenerative therapeutics.»

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.

Tobacco smoke is a key cause of the development and progression of COPD in the U.S. Exposure to air pollutants in the home and workplace, genetic factors, and respiratory infections also factor in.

Langone, now a contributor to The New York Times science pages, wrote that «it's highly improbable that exposure to toilet seats, drinking glasses, doorknobs, showers, or food touched by an AIDS victim, or to sneezes, coughs, saliva, tears, or sweat of a victim, will result in an infection.»

Now, this thinning of the adrenal gland cortex was a very unusual abnormality for us, that has not been previously reported in dolphins in the literature... now, aside from chemical exposure, conditions that can cause the adrenal gland to become thin include things like cancer, autoimmune disease, fungal infections and tuberculosis.

This research team notes that although healthcare exposure to infection was the most important risk factor for the development of MERS - CoV infection, in the ICU setting, where more strict infection control measures were applied (single rooms, dedicated 1:1 nurses, and better compliance with hand hygiene and isolation precautions), only one healthcare worker acquired the infection and no patient - to - patient transmission occurred.

It notes some of the critical scientific questions regarding Zika that deserve further exploration, including: whether certain viral mutations occurred to facilitate its geographical spread; if different species of Aedes mosquitoes are capable of transmitting Zika and what that may mean for future transmission; what is apparently unique to Zika compared to other more well - known flaviviruses, such as dengue, that can explain why it can cause congenital infections, neurological conditions and encephalitis, transmit sexually and persist for long periods of time in multiple parts of the human body; and whether preexisting immunity to other related flaviviruses may impact Zika exposure and infection.

Epigenetic translates to «above genetic» and is an emerging field of study that looks at how environmental factors — such as infections, pollutants, stress and, in this case, long - term exposure to drugs that block estrogen synthesis — could influence a person's DNA.

The research, published online today in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases, shows that poultry may be a source of human exposure to MRSA, a superbug which can cause serious infections and even death.

Subsequent exposure of uninfected dendritic cells to these extracellular TB antigens led to a strong T cell response, even in the absence of the TB bacterium and infection of dendritic cells.

«Prior dengue or yellow fever exposure does not worsen Zika infection in monkeys: Findings counter some concerns that prior flavivirus disease primes immune system to enhance Zika infection.»

Infections in people mainly occur through exposure to infected rodents or their secretions, and less commonly, between people through direct contact with bodily fluids.

Patient assessment for possible exposure to Ebola is critical — but it can be difficult to recognize Ebola infection in its early stages.

Experiments in cells and mice suggest that a previous exposure to dengue or West Nile can make a Zika virus infection worse.

In additional experiments, the scientists found that participants who had significant antibody responses did not necessarily also have significant immune system T cell responses to avian viruses, indicating that these two arms of immunity can be independently boosted after vaccination or infection; that individuals who reported receiving seasonal influenza vaccination had significantly higher antibodies to the avian H4, H5, H6, and H8 subtypes; and that participants with exposure to poultry had significantly higher antibody responses to the H7 subtype, but to none of the other subtypes tested.

Timely interventions for a true infection are critical, but unnecessary exposures to antibiotics can result in antimicrobial resistance, increased risk for serious health conditions, or even death,» said Nneka Nzegwu, DO, attending physician in neonatal - perinatal medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital and an author of the study.

The new research is part of the National Institutes of Health funded Infant Susceptibility to Pulmonary Infections and Asthma Following RSV Exposure (INSPIRE) study, which seeks to understand how viral ARIs in the first year of life affect future childhood respiratory health.

«Our results explain why post-exposure prophylaxis» — short - term treatment after exposure to HIV to reduce infection — «with antibodies is more effective than ART in our mouse models.»

That HCV infection and alcohol exposure appear to work in synergy to produce effects that are different from those seen with either alone was a «novel and unexpected» finding, says Weinman.

AT RISK Recent studies have found that Truvada, a drug to prevent HIV infection in people at risk of exposure to the virus, is effective when taken daily.

In the two decades following the epidemic, wild canids died following CDV infection but fatal CDV was not observed in lions or spotted hyenas anymore, even though high prevalence of serum antibodies against CDV in some years indicated outbreaks of asymptomatic exposure to the virus in lions and hyenaIn the two decades following the epidemic, wild canids died following CDV infection but fatal CDV was not observed in lions or spotted hyenas anymore, even though high prevalence of serum antibodies against CDV in some years indicated outbreaks of asymptomatic exposure to the virus in lions and hyenain lions or spotted hyenas anymore, even though high prevalence of serum antibodies against CDV in some years indicated outbreaks of asymptomatic exposure to the virus in lions and hyenain some years indicated outbreaks of asymptomatic exposure to the virus in lions and hyenain lions and hyenas.

We chose this route of administration in analogy to the prion field, in which most of the experiments to analyze prion infection by periphery are performed using this route of exposure.

The fact that the association was particularly strong in those with no siblings suggests it may be related to the «hygiene hypothesis» — the idea that exposure to mild infections in childhood, which might be more numerous with more siblings, are important to immune system development and may reduce the risk of immune - related diseases.

«Specifically, we want to study the roles played by antibiotics, paracetamol and exposure to second - hand smoke in the relationships between respiratory tract infections and lung function or asthma.

They found that although the number of bacteria living inside the fish was much lower in vaccinated fish, they showed many more signs of infection and a higher death rate compared with the unvaccinated group upon exposure to the sea lice.

Exposure to this vaccine actually made natural RSV infection in infants worse.

The finding wasn't surprising, Fallin explains — numerous studies have identified abnormal gene expression of immune genes in autism samples and environmental experiences such as prenatal infection or prenatal exposure to pollutants that can ramp up immune responses are risk factors for ASD.

A new study, published in the European Respiratory Journal, explores the association between e-cigarette vapour exposure and the susceptibility of cells to bacterial infection.

One avenue of our translational research aims to determine the impact of in utero HIV - 1 exposure on infant immunity to vaccinations and co-infections by dissecting the infant immune repertoire present at birth in the context of maternal HIV - 1 infection and how the infant T cell repertoire changes following early life exposures compared to infants born to the HIV - 1 uninfected women of similar socio - economic status.

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.

The new Ad26 / MVA and Ad35 / Ad26 vector - based vaccine regimens resulted in over 80 % reduction in the per - exposure probability of acquisition of infection against repetitive challenges of SIV, a virus similar to HIV that infects monkeys.

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.

Both cigarette smoke and nicotine have been shown to inhibit pulmonary T cell responses, including secretion of IFNγ, and enhance susceptibility to virus infection [31, 33], which suggests that exposure to nicotine, such as in E-cigs, may exhibit immunosuppressive effects.

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The five factors that I've identified in my patients that contribute to chronic inflammation are diet, leaky gut, toxin exposure, infections, and chronic stress — or a combination of these factors.

However, when the body has suffered too many assaults (for example, through infection, physical or mental trauma, chronic stress, poor dietary habits, exposure to toxins, and so on), the microglia are unable to downregulate and they remain in attack mode.