Sentences with phrase «infection in humans»

Also there could be a higher possibility of bacterial infections in humans, because warmer climate could alter the ecosystem causing higher number of pests and disease for crops, increasing use of pesticide.
As you can see from the infographic above, which is included in the report, the use of antibiotics in farm animals leads to an increased risk of antibiotic resistant infections in humans.
The study examined specific immune pathways known to be activated during flu infections in both humans and mice, which makes the findings relevant to children.
«Dual infections in humans, however, are fairly common, or more common than we would have thought,» she said.
The structure could also provide a basis for the design of drugs to halt infection in humans.
«We believe that this approach may be universally applicable to detection of other bacterial infections in humans,» the researchers write.
Urine from infected dogs can cause infection in humans through contact of breaks in the skin (wounds, etc.) or mucosal surfaces (mouth, eyes, etc.).
The KU Leuven team is currently examining whether other pathogens show a similar increase in tolerance and whether the same process of genetic adaptation takes place during the treatment of infections in human beings.
This finding has implications for HIV infection in humans, where it has been suggested that vulnerability to viral infection could vary during the menstrual cycle.
Researchers from the University of Helsinki have shown that three anti-influenza compounds effectively inhibit Zika virus infection in human cells.
Colostrum contains high concentrations of secretory IgA, the predominant immunoglobulin passed through your breast milk, lactoferrin, which acts as an antibacterial to prevent infection in human infants, and leukocytes, protective white cells.
For example, Salmonella infections in humans show a positive correlation with temperature.
«But a great deal of work lies ahead to see if this compound has the potential to serve as a less toxic treatment for fungal infections in human patients.
As many as 10,000 cases of roundworm infection in humans have been reported in one year.
«Our recognition of IL - 27's importance in mouse models could lead to improved diagnosis and prevention of lung disease following a viral infection in human patients.»
The mouse experiments also provide a way to test fecal transplants, which can cure a potentially fatal intestinal infection in humans and show potential for treating other conditions such as inflammatory bowel disease and obesity.
A clinical trial to evaluate whether the ointment can treat antibiotic resistant infections in human patients is scheduled for 2018.
«Our study has provided basic evidence that curcumin protects against Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in human cells,» said Dr. Xiyuan Bai, lead author of the study.
«New preclinical study indicates vaccine to prevent Zika infection in humans is feasible: Army scientists are moving quickly to test vaccine candidate.»
While cats are the «definitive host,» it's important to note that «wild game can be a source of T. gondii infection in humans, cats, and other carnivores.
The Plasmodium genus includes more than 100 species; just five are responsible for most infections in humans.
Prevention of tapeworm infection in humans involves avoiding uncooked or partially cooked meat or meat by - products.
However, the possibility of occasional XMRV infection in humans has not been completely ruled out.
Innate resistance to malaria infections in humans is conferred by different blood group polymorphisms.
The virus, commonly known as VSV, can infect cattle, but it rarely causes serious infections in humans.
Infections in humans do not completely develop, but may cause a lesion in the lungs «coin sign» that may be mistaken for a tumor.
In contrast, the most frequently isolated species of ringworm infections in humans are Trichophyton rubrum and Trichophyton tonsurans.
Treatment recommendations for dogs and cats have been extrapolated from medical regimens recommended for Bartonella infections in humans.
But the agency's recently adopted guidelines make it difficult to deny approval to a new veterinary drug unless it clearly threatens the treatment of a specific foodborne infection in humans.
Ultimately, though, quashing the bacteria at their source — the cows — is probably the most effective way to prevent E. coli O157 infections in humans.
«Damaging consequences of Zika virus infection in human minibrains: Zika virus reduces growth, induces cell death, malformations in human neurospheres, brain organoids.»
Despite its small size, «the study shows just how analogous the LCV infection in monkeys is to EBV infection in humans,» says Nancy Raab - Traub, a molecular biologist at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Invasive aspergillosis (IA) is a serious disease of immune - compromised individuals and the most common invasive mold infection in humans.
There is an urgent need to develop global surveillance against the threat to public health caused by antimicrobial resistant pathogens, which can cause serious and untreatable infections in humans.
Taken together, the results of efficacy testing conducted in nonhuman primates and safety testing performed in a Phase I clinical trial suggest that AVI - 7288 has the potential to be used to treat Marburg virus infection in humans when administered post-exposure, according to the authors.
«These data provide the basis for understanding the immune response to filovirus infections in humans,» said Bukreyev.
A model of dengue infection in humans is one way to overcome the absence of animal models and the challenge of high background immunity in endemic areas.
In this case, Diamond and his team decided to look at parts of the male reproductive tract because the virus can also be sexually transmitted — unlike other viruses spread by mosquitoes — and because scientists had seen lasting infections in both human semen and in mouse testes.
Poultry are already a leading source of Salmonella and Campylobacter infections in humans.
Studies over the past few years have suggested that toxoplasmosis infections in humans, too, may cause behavioral changes — from subtle shifts to outright schizophrenia.
A strain of bacteria that causes skin and soft tissue infections in humans originally came from cattle, according to a study to be published in mBio ®, the online open - access journal of the American Society for Microbiology.
Although the majority of human cases of MERS have been attributed to human - to - human infections, camels are likely to be a major reservoir host for the virus and an animal source of MERS infection in humans.
«If there were ever going to be a biofilm infection in a human being, it was going to be on the end of that pacemaker,» Costerton says.
Together, these communication and defense capabilities allow P. aeruginosa to form tightly packed layers called biofilms, which can cause respiratory tract infections in humans and are particularly dangerous to cystic fibrosis patients.
The discovery means that gram - negative bacteria, which cause common gut, urinary and blood infections in humans, can now become «pan-resistant», with genes that defeat all antibiotics now available.
There is no licensed vaccine to prevent RSV infection in humans, and vaccines currently in use for cattle have noted safety and effectiveness problems.
It had been thought that that was why it causes a devastating deep - lung infection in humans, but does not spread between people, because it does not bind and replicate in the nose.
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z