Sentences with phrase «infectious disease studies»

Her vaccination and infectious disease studies provide the evidence needed to create protocols that protect the health of shelter and free - roaming community cats, always with an eye toward practicality in the resource - scare environment of animal shelters and cat management programs.

Humanized mouse models, where human tumor tissue is engrafted into immunodeficient NOD SCID gamma (NSG) mice, are frequently used in oncology and infectious disease studies to provide valuable translational insights.

Additional cancer and infectious diseases studies in diverse animal models are in progress.

Not exact matches

The company runs clinical studies on behalf of its multinational pharma clients in oncology, respiratory / infectious disease and central nervous system disorders.

However, development costs will likely rise, however, as the «DepoVax pipeline expands into other medical markets beyond oncology and infectious disease» and «existing programs advance into more substantive Phase 2 studies, perhaps as early as FY H2 / 18.»

Sayers adds, «Scientists also did a study of Native American plains Indians and found that while some died of tuberculosis and other infectious diseases, they never found any evidence of cancer or heart or stroke problems.

A study published in the American Journal of Public Health tested landfilled disposable diapers to determine if disposable diapers from landfills could be a source of infectious diseases.

Respiratory and gastrointestinal tract infections are the leading cause of morbidity in children.1, 2 Prospective cohort studies in industrialized countries revealed a prevalence of 3.4 % to 32.1 % for respiratory tract infectious diseases and 1.2 % to 26.3 % for gastrointestinal infectious diseases in infancy.3, — , 8 The risks of these infectious diseases are affected by several factors including birth weight, gestational age, socioeconomic status, ethnicity, number of siblings, day care attendance, and parental smoking.3, 5,6,8, — , 20

The effects of prolonged and exclusive breastfeeding on infectious diseases at older ages in industrialized countries remain to be studied.

Additional studies are needed to assess the associations of breastfeeding duration with the risks of infectious diseases beyond the age of 6 months.

Most studies have revealed protective effects of breastfeeding on common infections in the first 8 to12 months of life.8, 27,29,30 One study, which distinguished between infectious diseases until and from the age of 6 months, revealed results similar to those from our study.24 Although the authors used exclusive breastfeeding for 3 months as the reference group, exclusive breastfeeding for 6 months reduced the risk of gastrointestinal tract infections between the ages of 3 and 6 months but not between the ages of 6 and 12 months.24 We can not explain why breastfeeding duration was only associated with lower risks of lower respiratory tract infection from 7 to 12 months.

However, the organization also called for more research regarding the benefits of 6 vs 4 months of exclusive breastfeeding.25 Thus far, several studies in industrialized countries revealed that a shorter duration of breastfeeding increases the risk of common infectious diseases, such as respiratory and gastrointestinal tract infections.8, 19,24,26, — , 32 However, in these studies, various definitions of the exclusiveness of breastfeeding were used24, 27,28,30 or the combination of duration and exclusiveness of breastfeeding was not taken into account.8, 31

These babies are also vulnerable to the risk of infectious disease from bacterial and viral contamination of such milk, which was identified in a prior study by the same research team led by Nationwide Children's Hospital.

Alexis is a scientist at a local research institute where she pursues the study of infectious diseases.

He evaluated 20 studies that compared breast - fed babies «resistance to infectious disease with that shown by bottle - fed babies.

WHO Collaborative Study Team on the Role of Breastfeeding on the Prevention of Infant Mortality 2000, Effect of breastfeeding on infant and child mortality due to infectious diseases in less developed countries: a pooled analysis.

Physiologic sleep studies have found that breastfed infants are more easily aroused from sleep than their formula - fed counterparts.247, 248 In addition, breastfeeding results in a decreased incidence of diarrhea, upper and lower respiratory infections, and other infectious diseases249 that are associated with an increased vulnerability to SIDS and provides overall immune system benefits from maternal antibodies and micronutrients in human milk.250, 251 Exclusive breastfeeding for 6 months has been found to be more protective against infectious diseases compared with exclusive breastfeeding to 4 months of age and partial breastfeeding thereafter.249

One of the infectious agents the research team studied was the organism that causes tuberculosis (TB)-- a disease that is a huge problem in many countries of the world and getting worse because of the development of antibiotic - resistant strains.

«I'm interested in bridging gaps between traditional epidemiology and mathematical modeling, hopefully developing improved methods for studying infectious diseases,» she says.

«Her results suggest that, for certain types of infections, formulation of an antibiotic that creates an alkaline environment at the source of infection could be effective,» says associate professor Bryan Davies with the university's Center for Infectious Disease, who was not involved with the study.

«The rise of «superbugs» leaves the clinical community with a rapidly dwindling number of options to treat infectious disease and to prevent the spread of resistant bacteria in, for example, hospital settings,» explains Professor Vincent O'Flaherty of the National University of Ireland Galway, co-corresponding author on the study, recently published in Frontiers in Microbiology.

For researchers using mouse models to study a variety of cancers, including lymphoma, melanoma, breast, and prostate cancers as well as autoimmune and infectious diseases, the panel facilitates a highly sensitive and high - throughput investigation of biomarkers associated with disease progression.

Yet, Adriana Marques, chief of clinical infectious diseases at NIH, launched a study of STARI in 2002, and enrolled only three suspected patients over 10 years.

Study co = authors were Igho Ofotokun, PhD, associate professor of medicine (infectious diseases) at Emory University School of Medicine and M. Neal Weitzmann, PhD, associate professor of medicine (endocrinology) at Emory School of Medicine and the Atlanta Veterans Affairs Medical Center.

Although the same phenomenon may occur with other infectious diseases, the study focused on TB — one of the largest causes of morbidity and mortality in Zimbabwe, especially among people living with HIV.

«Infectious disease disaster planning among Missouri schools does not appear to have progressed much over the last four years since a similar nationwide study was conducted, and most Missouri schools are not meeting many national and professional organization recommendations and guidelines,» state the study's authors.

«The network recognizes patterns,» says M. Rizwan Sohail, an infectious disease expert at Mayo Clinic and lead author of the study, presented at the Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy in San Francisco in September.

Everyone who studies infectious disease knows Donald Ainslie Henderson as «DA».

«Future studies will not only seek to further map the function of AIM2 in infectious diseases, but also to track its role in other disorders, including cancer,» Man said.

He added that many immunologists involved in fighting bioterrorism also study bacterial and viral immunology and explore infectious diseases.

The new study supports the theory of antibody - dependent enhancement in humans, says Anna Durbin, an infectious diseases physician at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

The authors — Martin Llewelyn, a professor of infectious diseases at Brighton and Sussex Medical School, and nine British colleagues — point to recent studies that have shown shorter courses of certain drug classes such as quinolones are as effective as the longer courses that have been recommended in the past.

Satellite imagery is used for all sorts of climate study, from identifying conditions that allow infectious diseases like West Nile virus and cholera to emerge, to creating models for predicting hurricanes, to distinguishing natural resources such as wind, water and sunlight.

Prof. Khatri and his team studied the way the immune system responds to infection by looking at gene expression — which genes are active and which are not — and whether there are differences in patients with malaria compared to other infectious diseases.

In a study published today [Jan 26, 2016] in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, the team documents a disease trajectory that started with nine positive patients and has now spread to more than 13,000 infected individuals in that country.

If further studies in humans prove successful, this research could have broad implications for the prevention of influenza and, by extension, as an approach for other infectious diseases as well.

Matthew Thomas, a professor at The Pennsylvania State University who is studying the impact of climate change on the transmission of infectious diseases, says that his group had applied for funding in late 2008.

Other studies have suggested that high LDL - C may protect against some often fatal diseases, such as cancer and infectious diseases, and that having low LDL - C may increase one's susceptibility to these diseases.

The study suggests that dwindling global environmental biodiversity and worldwide spikes in infectious diseases may be linked, said Jason Rohr, associate professor of integrative biology, University of Southern Florida.

No one know how many birds succumb each year to the wildlife trade since much of the trafficking is illegal, but within Southeast Asia alone, it is likely «in the order of tens of millions,» says Kelly Edmunds, a researcher at the University of East Anglia in England who investigates the emerging infectious diseases amongst bird sellers in Asia and was not involved in the study.

Horst Thieme studies rapidly reproducing parasitic populations, which, as he notes, «are ideal objects to study the principles of evolution; in turn, it is important to understand these principles to control infectious diseases effectively.»

This work helps us understand how medical male circumcision reduces HIV - infection in men and points towards novel interventions to decrease HIV risk in the future,» says Rupert Kaul, an infectious disease physician and the study's senior immunologist and a Professor at the University of Toronto.

The study, funded in part by a $ 500,000 grant from the Florida Legislative, was a collaboration between Saleh Naser, UCF infectious disease specialist, Dr. Shazia Bég, rheumatologist at UCF's physician practice, and Robert Sharp, a biomedical sciences doctoral candidate at the medical school.

«Gene sequencing has opened a huge door to how complex these communities are,» says Patrick Seed, a Duke pediatrician specializing in infectious disease, who with biologist Rob Jackson is a lead investigator of the premature infant study.

Studying infectious diseases is not necessarily a deadly task.

«If we sampled in households where people were bitten, this wouldn't be surprising at all,» says Stephen Klotz, chief of the infectious diseases section at the University of Arizona in Tucson and one of the study's authors.

«I don't see how you can ethically do a study on a child where there is no chance the child benefits from that study,» says Paul Offit, an infectious disease specialist at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia in Pennsylvania, who often speaks out in favor of childhood vaccination.

Some studies blame a parasite - stress model: High infectious disease rates can exacerbate tensions such as xenophobia and strain resources, elevating the risk of conflict.

In a correlational study lower average regional intelligence was found to be linked with higher infectious disease rates.

«This exciting advance, the culmination of decades of studies on prion diseases, markedly improves on available diagnostic tests for CJD that are less reliable, more difficult for patients to tolerate, and require more time to obtain results,» said Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), a component of NIH.