But up to 20 years later, between 20 and 30 per cent of
infected people develop a life threatening inflammation of the heart muscles.
Doctors do not yet know how easily it is transmitted or what proportion of
infected people develop the polio - like symptoms — mysteries Glaser will be working to investigate in her new position at health care giant Kaiser Permanente.
Although the disease is not progressing as quickly as many experts feared, this is primarily due to earlier diagnosis and treatment with drugs such as AZT that prolong the asymptomatic period before the HIV -
infected person develops full - blown AIDS.
Infected people developed pharyngitis, glomerulonephritis, meningitis and pneumonia.
Most human infections have no symptoms, with approximately 20 % of
infected people developing West Nile fever and fewer than 1 % developing a disease that affects the nervous system.
Not exact matches
In an effort to capture personal and business details, hackers have
developed malicious programs that can
infect a computer that can record every keystroke the
person makes on the keyboard.
Only a small fraction of
people infected with the JE virus actually
develop the disease.
If left untreated,
infected persons may
develop severe complications and die.
Only one of five
people infected with the virus
develop symptoms, which can include fever, rash, joint pain and red eyes.
Approximately one in five
people who are
infected will
develop a fever with other symptoms.
Approximately 1 in 5
people who are
infected will
develop a fever with other symptoms.
Less than 1 % of
infected people will
develop a serious, sometimes fatal, neurological illness.
In less -
developed nations, 90 percent of
people become
infected by age 2.
Models suggest
infected people could still
develop vCJD in coming decades.
Although far from being ready for testing in West Africa, the discs are being
developed for potential use as a cheap, simple method to identify
infected people.
Three decades later, Prichard's laboratory is conducting vanguard research in understanding the genetics of drug resistance in parasitic nematodes, which
infect more than 350 million
people in dozens of
developing countries.
«Almost every human being is
infected with one or more of these viruses, but most
people never
develop symptoms, much less breast cancer,» Friedenson said.
In
people infected with HIV who
develop broadly neutralizing antibodies, this antibody region — called HCDR3 — has about 30 amino acids, about twice as long as what is usual for human antibodies.
The woman was in contact with an
infected person and was put on low - dose Tamiflu as a precaution, but she
developed flu anyway.
A new test detects virtually any virus that
infects people and animals, according to research at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, where the technology was
developed.
The research suggests there are more
people infected in lymphoid tissues, who may never
develop the disease but could still
infect others via blood transfusions or organ donations
Although far from being ready for testing in west Africa, paper discs that detect the virus are being
developed for potential use as a cheap, simple method to identify
infected people.
Significantly, the results could help identify new compounds which could be used to
develop improved mosquito traps that could specifically target malaria -
infected mosquitoes before they have the chance to pass on the parasite to the
people they bite.
If the sexual forms of the parasite never
develop in an
infected person's blood, then none will get into the mosquito's gut, and the mosquito will not be able to
infect anyone else with malaria.»
About a third of
infected people (presumably those with higher chronic parasite numbers)
develop serious heart disease or digestive tract complications many years after the initial infection.
Infection is virtually impossible to diagnose by sight because only one in 200
people infected will
develop the telltale paralysis, and that allows the virus to spread invisibly.
Most
people infected with Salmonella
develop diarrhea, fever, and abdominal cramps 6 to 72 hours after infection.
Most of the estimated 390 million
people who are
infected with dengue virus each year
develop either no symptoms or a mild illness.
Around 400 million
people worldwide are
infected with the hepatitis B virus (HBV); of those, one - third will go on to
develop life - threatening complications, such as cirrhosis and liver cancer.
Hepatitis C, which is transmitted through the blood,
infects upward of 4 million
people each year; 150 million
people are chronically
infected and at risk for
developing cirrhosis or liver cancer, according to the paper.
If a
person is bitten by a plague -
infected flea, agonizingly painful egg - sized swellings of the lymph nodes called buboes
develop in the neck, the armpit, or the groin.
Most
people who are
infected have no symptoms, but about 15 %
develop serious disease, and about half these patients die.
Developed by Gilead Sciences in Foster City, California, Truvada proved particularly effective in the East African trial, published last week: it reduced the incidence of HIV by 75 % in
people with partners who had been
infected.
Thirty percent of
people infected with the parasite
develop life - threatening symptoms like heart rhythm abnormalities and difficult eating or passing stool.
But public health experts say there is no reason to be alarmed, because resistance
developed while the patient was being treated — which suggests the resistant virus isn't circulating yet — and she appears not to have
infected other
people.
Beyond this, the scientists also recommend combining of mo - lecular with serological tests which determine infection by detecting the antibodies
developed by an
infected person a few days after the infection.
That finding helps explain why
people infected with H7N9 often
develop severe pneumonia.
The most commonly used diagnostic tests were
developed decades ago, says Chaisson, and miss roughly half the cases of active TB in HIV -
infected people.
Only about five percent of HPV -
infected people will
develop cancer of the mouth or throat, suggesting most
people's immune systems can easily hold back HPV infections.
Cornell and Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research scientists have
developed a way to produce a protein antigen that may be useful as vaccine for schistosomiasis — a parasitic disease that
infects millions of
people, mostly in tropical and subtropical climates — according to new research in the journal Protein Expression and Purification, June 2017.
However, the proportion of HSV - 1 —
infected people who reported
developing genital herpes from the virus rose from 0.4 percent to 1.8 percent.
Smokers, drinkers, and
people infected with the human papillomavirus (HPV) have the highest risk of
developing head and neck cancer, which is the collective name for tumors found in the oral cavity, including the mouth, larynx, and pharynx.
For HIV to
develop into full - blown AIDS, the virus must deplete a subset of immune cells called CD4 + T cells, disabling an
infected person's adaptive immune system in the process.
As we learn more about how schistosomes
infect their hosts and reproduce inside them, we hope to devise new strategies for controlling these devastating parasites that
infect hundreds of millions of
people in the
developing world.
On Friday the BBC reported that Ian Christie, a man who
developed cirrhosis of the liver after being
infected with hepatitis C during a blood transfusion 25 years ago, had become the first
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People who become
infected as adults usually
develop no symptoms and therefore don't realize they are infectious to others.
Every year, over 2.5 million
people are newly
infected with most of these infections occurring in
developing countries.
Most
people (~ 80 %)
infected with the virus do not
develop any symptoms.
Ahmedâ $ ™ s team had showed that
people infected by the 2009 H1N1 flu strain
developed broadly protective antibodies, and separately, so did volunteers immunized against the H5N1 avian flu virus.
NIAID is working to better understand HIV and how it causes disease, find new tools to prevent HIV infection,
develop new and more effective treatments for HIV -
infected people, and find a cure.