Sentences with phrase «immunosuppressed because»

Immunity can sometimes be overwhelmed when there is exposure to a particularly harmful strain of the microorganism, or when the animal is unduly stressed or is immunosuppressed because of another disease or certain drugs.

«In addition, high - ranking male chimpanzees are often immunosuppressed because they have high levels of testosterone and have been shown to have higher rates of parasitism.

Not exact matches

«Here we see that the same IL - 21B gene polymorphisms seem to influence the response to influenza virus vaccination, at least in a population of transplant patients who, because of their transplant status, have to receive immunosuppressing drugs.

However, if the dog or puppy becomes run down or immunosuppressed, for example, because of illness, stress or malnutrition then the immune system can not keep the mites under control and large numbers of them cause the disease demodicosis.

The pet has the disease but is unable to generate an immune response because it is immunosuppressed.

Because dogs live very closely with their human companions and some of their parasites are transmissible to us, particularly to our children, elderly or immunosuppressed, prevention of parasitic diseases is an important part of pet ownership.