Sentences with phrase «human patients harboring»

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Spurred by this finding, Littman's team examined the gut microbiota in patients with rheumatoid arthritis, a debilitating autoimmune disease, and found a much higher proportion of patients than healthy individuals who harbored the human intestinal bacterium Prevotella copri.

Although the disease only affects cats, it is recommended that immunocompromised people (ie chemo patients and human AIDS patients) not reside with FeLV positive cats because these cats are more likely to harbor opportunistic infections that could be transmitted to immunocompromised humans.