Sentences with phrase «for traces of the virus»

Take a stool sample with you so that it can be tested for traces of the virus.

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Although labor arrest and abnormal or indeterminate fetal heart rate tracing are the most common indications for primary cesarean delivery, less common indications ---- such as fetal malpresentation, suspected macrosomia, multiple gestation, and maternal infection (eg, herpes simplex virus)---- account for tens of thousands of cesarean deliveries in the United States annually.

The genomes of two distinct strains of the virus that causes the common lip cold sore, herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV - 1), have been identified within an individual person — an achievement that could be useful to forensic scientists for tracing a person's history.

«Tracing social and risk networks has been found to help locate people recently infected with HIV, given that the virus is transmitted through sexual and injection risk networks,» said Friedman, director of the Institute for Infectious Disease Research at NDRI and associate director and senior theoretician at CDUHR.

They searched the fluid for traces of RNA indicating the presence of different classes of retroviruses, RNA viruses that, like HIV, copy their sequence into the genome of infected organisms.

Health care officials and aid workers attempting to trace the progression of the Ebola virus disease outbreak that has claimed more than 2,800 lives so far (pdf) have come to rely heavily on a handful of disease - monitoring Web sites that act as pivotal hubs for processing information.

In an ambitious study, the authors attempt to trace drug resistance against all strains of the flu by using an extensive influenza virus database containing all known genetic sequence information (70,000 complete nucleotide sequences) for influenza strains.

Called «C.A.T.C.H. the Virus,» which stands for Characterizing and Tracking College Health, the study traces the trajectory of viral infections using blood samples, nasal swabs and breath samples from ailing freshmen and their closest contacts.

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These hiding spots are called «latent reservoirs,» and they allow the virus to lurk unseen for years even though blood tests no longer show traces of HIV.

However, the Dutch team pointed out that traces of Zika virus in blood and fetal tissue were found for at least 21 days, suggesting that the «window» for testing a pregnant woman for the virus may need to be expanded.

Anyone who comes into contact with an infected dog's feces (a trace on the bottom of someone's shoe as they walk along an outdoor trail, for instance) can pass the virus on to other dogs.