Sentences with phrase «infections like tuberculosis»

More and more people are getting resistant to drugs that treat infections like tuberculosis.

«Investment relative to mortality for pneumonia has increased in recent years, but it remains low compared to other respiratory infections like tuberculosis and influenza,» says co-author Dr Stuart Clarke, from the University of Southampton's Faculty of Medicine.

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Certain infections, like HIV; untreated, active tuberculosis (ok to pump); untreated brucellosis; active herpes lesions on her breast (ok to pump); and mothers who are positive for the human T - cell lymphotropic virus type I or II

Smoke inhalation is a cause of or is associated with everything from acute respiratory infections like influenza, pneumonia, tuberculosis and bronchiolitis to deformities among children still in the womb — such as cleft palates.

Now, this thinning of the adrenal gland cortex was a very unusual abnormality for us, that has not been previously reported in dolphins in the literature... now, aside from chemical exposure, conditions that can cause the adrenal gland to become thin include things like cancer, autoimmune disease, fungal infections and tuberculosis.

«Another prominent example are HIV syndemics, where the suppressed immune system of the hosts greatly increases the susceptibility towards secondary infections like hepatitis, malaria, syphilis, herpes virus, or tuberculosis.

The discovery of penicillin almost 90 years ago ushered in the age of modern antibiotics, but the growth of antibiotic resistance means bacterial infections like pneumonia and tuberculosis are becoming more difficult to treat.