Sentences with phrase «infected people develop»

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.

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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.
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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.
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