Sentences with phrase «infective diseases»

Warning: puppies are very vulnerable to infective diseases such as parvo when they are young as their immune system is still developing.

This is the measure of how infective a disease is, or how many people one infected person will pass it on to in the course of their illness.

Scheduled on the On Call Team by Supervisor to clean certain rooms immediately such as the Labor rooms, Patient rooms and Infective disease rooms which are contaminated, you had to wear gloves, caps, footwear, and gowns.

Not exact matches

By this time it was known that BSE was a prion disease but whether the infective prion came from scrapie - infected sheep or another source is still not known.

Researchers have published in the New England Journal of Medicine their work which reports that infective Ebola virus can be found in the semen of those who survived the disease up to nine months following initial infection.

The infective larva do not progress to adult worms in people but the migrating larvae leave the intestines and find their way to other organs such as lungs, liver, or eyes and cause damage and disease in those locations.

When the infected mosquito bites another dog or cat or a disease - prone wild animal, the infective worms are then transferred to the animal through the mosquito bite wound.

Additionally problematic is that an exposed dog will shed the infective organisms and is contagious for two days prior to when the coughing starts, making it difficult to identify a carrier before the disease is spread.

Heartworm disease is spread through mosquitoes; so when a mosquito carrying infective heartworm larvae bites a dog (or other pet), it transmits the infection.

Although mature dogs may shed the infective stage of the parasite (oocyst) from time to time in their stool, it almost never causes disease symptoms in these animals.

communicable disease infectious disease caused by transmission of an infective biological agent (virus, bacterium, protozoan, or multicellular macroparasite)