"Infectious particles" refers to tiny substances or organisms, like viruses or bacteria, that can spread and cause diseases when they enter your body. They are called infectious because they have the ability to infect (or invade) your cells and make you sick.
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These studies showed the presence and persistence of
infectious particles in feathers as long as 5 days after the death of the animal [33].
Canine cough is spread via aerosol (
infectious particles in the air) and moves through shelters and kennels much the same as a human cold virus moves through a day care centre.
«Antiviral ingredients of Ci extracts target viral envelope proteins
on infectious particles and prevent them from contacting host cells,» Brack - Werner explains.
The FDA recommends that open - system pumps be used by a single user
because infectious particles remaining in the pump may potentially cause disease.
The mucociliary escalator refers to the hairlike cilia cells coated in mucus that trap
infectious particles before they enter the lungs and prompt coughing or swallowing.
This tract is normally lined with a coating of mucus that
traps infectious particles, but there are a number of factors that can weaken this protection and make dogs prone to kennel cough infection, which results in inflammation of the larynx (voice box) and trachea (windpipe).
By inhibiting the activity of a particular component of the human TREX complex, UAP56, it prevents the common viral protein from taking advantage of its protective effect, thereby inhibiting virus replication and production
of infectious particles.
The projects bring together biologists, dentists, and bioengineers and span a range of technologies, from an artificial nose that can sniff out
infectious particles to a genetic test that can identify fragments of RNA in saliva that have been linked to cancers.
New studies suggest that such diseases should be classified among disorders caused by
the infectious particles known as prions.
The protein is believed to be the principal, if not sole, component of
an infectious particle that Prusiner named «prion» (PREE - on), for proteinaceous infectious particle.
A pet contracts kennel cough when they inhale particles of a virus or bacteria which then lingers in their respiratory tract, trapping
the infectious particles and resulting in an inflammation of the trachea and bronchi.
The reason that kennel cough passes so easily among dogs is that
these infectious particles are airborne.