Sentences with phrase «in asymptomatic carriers»

Plowe is trying to develop surveillance methods that hit the «sweet spot,» by which he means sensitive enough to detect very low parasite loads in asymptomatic carriers — microscopy is too crude — but portable enough to use in the field.

In Asymptomatic Carrier, Heath begins with a phone call to a flag fabricator, slowly revealing the fact that he is looking for a flag to wave above what has become his home on the otherwise abandoned North Brother Island.

Not exact matches

Dr Heather Mortiboys, Parkinson's UK Senior Research Fellow from the University of Sheffield, explained: «We demonstrated the beneficial effects of UDCA in the tissue of LRRK2 carriers with Parkinson's disease as well as currently asymptomatic LRRK2 carriers.

If confirmed in subsequent studies, isolating asymptomatic carriers could potentially prevent thousands of cases of HA - CDI every year in North America,» the study concludes.

But asymptomatic C. difficile carriers may also play a role in disseminating spores because they can contaminate the environment and caregivers» hands, and because they are not detected are not placed under isolation precautions.

The team will now analyze examples of norovirus infection within the families of the symptomatic carriers, and use this data to identify the virus factors and host factors that are key in converting the norovirus infection from asymptomatic individuals to symptomatic infections.

«Atrophy of the hippocampus, a region of the brain crucial for memory, is a common feature of AD, although it may also be detected in asymptomatic individuals as well as healthy adult carriers of the ApoE ɛ4 allele,» explained Andy Simmons, PhD, of the Department of Neuroimaging of the Institute of Psychiatry of King's College London.

At study entry, serum transthyretin levels were modestly lower in patients with transthyretin amyloidosis than in healthy volunteers, a finding that was consistent with reports showing lower transthyretin levels in patients with transthyretin amyloidosis than in either asymptomatic disease carriers or healthy controls.36

The clinical screening of carrier subjects has led to the detection of two additional cases of acromegaly (see details below), in addition to the two index cases, and to date, 16 R304 * carriers have been shown to be asymptomatic carriers.

A carrier for a recessive condition is asymptomatic and has a pathogenic genetic variant in just one of their two copies of the associated gene.

Working in the kitchens of the upper class, she left a trail of disease in her wake, until one enterprising and ruthless «medical engineer» proposed the inconceivable notion of the «asymptomatic carrier» - and from then on Mary Mallon was a hunted woman.

If the presence of one of those parasites is established, but treatment is not effective, the presence of asymptomatic carriers, which are in contact with the rabbit (s) should be considered.

In fact, it's estimated that more than 35 % of normal healthy dogs and 18 % of healthy cats (most of which eat commercial pet food) are already asymptomatic carriers.

A small study in the UK showed 16 % of young asymptomatic GSDs to be homozygous for the mutation, with a further 38 % being carriers.

A clinical ophthalmologic exam will only tell the clinical status of that individual dog on the day of the exam — it can not tell if the dog will develop a problem in the future, and it can not tell if a dog is an asymptomatic carrier of an inherited eye disease.

It also has several potentially fatal complications and the capability to cause persistent infections in populations of asymptomatic carrier horses.

As in many herpes infections found in other species, adult animals can live for years with no apparent signs; these are called «asymptomatic carriers.»