Sentences with phrase «infection during childhood»

«Our study suggests that respiratory bacterial infections during childhood establish a novel type of antibacterial immunity,» explained corresponding author Joseph Mizgerd, ScD, professor of medicine, microbiology and biochemistry at Boston University School of Medicine.

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In the developing world, stenosis can be a consequence of rheumatic fever (caused by untreated strep infection) during childhood.

Even if babies born to HIV - positive mothers avoid infection during birth, around 15 per cent contract HIV in early childhood.

«Despite the low infection levels of mouse cells with oHSV, we were able to cause a delay in tumor growth in one of the cancer models and even cure many of the mice in a second model,» said first author Jennifer Leddon, who conducted much of the laboratory work during a research experience in the Center for Childhood Cancer and Blood Diseases.

Besides the obvious reasons, whether or not you are happy or sad, or prone to depression or other mental illnesses, could be a consequence of an infection — or even down to the diseases that you didn't catch during childhood.

While adult height is genetically determined, it is also influenced by factors such as maternal diet during pregnancy, childhood diet, infection and psychological stress.

Torrey wondered if the moment of infection might in fact have occurred during early childhood.

Having a single infection with mumps during childhood will give you lifelong resistance, for example.

It also promotes normal growth during childhood and helps your body fight infections.

Throughout childhood, exposure to secondhand smoke increases the risk of asthma, respiratory infections, and ear infections.48 During adolescence, children whose parents smoked are twice as likely as children of nonsmokers to begin smoking between ages 13 and 21.49