Sentences with phrase «known human infections»

No known human infections with either canine influenza virus have ever been reported.

According to the World Health Organization, most known human infections have resulted from direct or indirect contact with poultry.

According to the World Health Organization, most known human infections of H7N9 have resulted from direct or indirect contact with poultry.

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Well, the truth is, the cow industry is inhumane, (the overcrowded transportation conditions alone lead to to great suffering, severe cruelty and broken limbs), unhealthy (cows are pumped full of hormones, adrenalin from the fear from when they know they will be killed and anti-biotics — because the unhealthy conditions they live in promote infection and disease) and inefficient (cows must be fed 3 times the edible human grain than their bodies produce in meat).

Such standards help eliminate product contamination by any number of microorganisms known to cause dangerous infection and disease in humans.

Premature infants who are fed with human milk decrease their risks of a serious and life - threatening intestinal infection known as necrotizing enterocolitis, or NEC.

It is well known that infants offered human milk have a lower incidence of infection and feeding intolerances.

It is human nature to avoid pain, so if your toddler is experience pain when urinating because of an infection or experiencing painful bowel movement because of constipation, you child will avoid going potty until s / he can no longer hold it and ends up having accidents.

Yeast, formally known as Candidiasis, is the most common fungal infection 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.

«Maybe this is what we have been missing in knowing how humans combat viral infections,» he said.

High used AAV to deliver the gene because the virus is considered benign; although it infects human cells, it is not known to cause any symptomatic infection.

It now seems very likely that a previously unknown form of infection is responsible for transmitting BSE in cattle and Creutzfeldt - Jakob disease in humans, diseases both belonging to the group known as transmissable spongiform encephalopathies.

It notes some of the critical scientific questions regarding Zika that deserve further exploration, including: whether certain viral mutations occurred to facilitate its geographical spread; if different species of Aedes mosquitoes are capable of transmitting Zika and what that may mean for future transmission; what is apparently unique to Zika compared to other more well - known flaviviruses, such as dengue, that can explain why it can cause congenital infections, neurological conditions and encephalitis, transmit sexually and persist for long periods of time in multiple parts of the human body; and whether preexisting immunity to other related flaviviruses may impact Zika exposure and infection.

«Since it's impossible to predict which of these agents will cause the next epidemic, it would be ideal to develop a single therapy that could treat or prevent infection caused by any known ebolavirus,» says study co-leader Zachary A. Bornholdt, Ph.D., director of antibody discovery at Mapp Biopharmaceutical, Inc. «Our discovery and characterization of broadly neutralizing human antibodies is an important step toward that goal,» adds study co-leader, Kartik Chandran, Ph.D., professor of microbiology & immunology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) also known as sexually transmissible diseases, sexually transmitted infections (STIs) or (infrequently) venereal diseases (VD), are diseases or infections that have a significant probability of transmission between humans by means of sexual contact.

With this site occupied, the virus can no longer attach itself to human cells and spread infection.

More commonly known as human herpesvirus 5 or HCMV, cytomegalovirus is the most frequently transmitted intrauterine infection and can result in serious disabilities at birth, though most people will exhibit only mild symptoms or none at all.

Further testing and human clinical trials are needed to determine if favipiravir, also known as T - 705 and Avigan, could effectively treat Lassa virus infection in people.

Four weeks later, mice that had received the DNA vaccine were exposed to the Brazilian strain of Zika virus known to cause fetal birth defects in mice analogous to those seen following fetal Zika infection in humans.

This pushes back the first recorded case of AIDS in the US by about a decade: the only earlier known case of human HIV infection was in Zaire in 1959.

In humans, Zika virus infection during pregnancy has been linked to a suite of birth defects including a condition known as microcephaly, which leaves babies with shrunken heads and brains (SN: 4/2/16, p. 26).

In humans, Zika virus infection during pregnancy has been linked to a suite of birth defects including a condition known as...

Of these, three had already been approved for human and veterinary use: azidothymidine (also known as AZT, a therapy for HIV infection), spectinomycin (a treatment for gonorrhea infection) and apramycin (a veterinary antimicrobial).

A human protein known as prohibitin may play a significant role in infection of the nervous system by EV71, one of several viruses that can cause hand, foot, and mouth disease.

«The fruit fly is a well - known model organism used to understand human biology as it, like all other living organisms, has to fend off various viral infections.

Researchers have sequenced the genome of Brucella melitensis, a relatively obscure bacterium better known in the context of Malta fever, a highly contagious flu - like infection in humans.

• Subject is known to have human immunodeficiency virus infection.

Chagas disease, which is transmitted to humans by a blood - sucking insect known as an Assassin bug, is the most devastating parasitic infection in Central and South America and Mexico.

This human microbiome includes opportunistic pathogens, microbes that do not normally cause disease in a healthy person but can provoke an infection when the person's immune system is suppressed, a concern known to occur during spaceflight.

Human milk is known to boost brain development, prevent life - threatening infections, decrease allergies, and promote stronger bones and a higher IQ.

He teamed with Dr. Janeway in the search for the gene in the innate immune system that activates the adaptive system — to address the questions, how does the human body know when it has an infection, and how does a microbial infection trigger an immune response?

Scientists have known that, in organisms ranging in complexity from yeast to humans, different kinds of cellular stress — such as a backlog of unfolded proteins, DNA - damaging UV light, a shortage of the amino acid building blocks needed to make protein, viral infection, iron deficiency — trigger different enzymes to act downstream to switch off eIF2 alpha.

• Patients must have adequate coagulation (international normalized ratio (INR) or prothrombin time (PT), partial thromboplastin time (PTT) ≤ 1.5 times ULN) • Adequate liver function (total bilirubin ≤ 1.5 times the ULN, alanine aminotransferase (ALT) and aspartate aminotransferase (AST) ≤ 2.5 times ULN Exclusion Criteria: • Presence of active / uncontrolled central nervous system involvement • History of clinically significant cardiac disease; uncontrolled hypertension • Left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) < 45 % • Allogeneic stem cell transplant within 100 days before first dose of study drug • Known history of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection • Chronic or active hepatitis B or C, requiring antiviral therapy • Evidence of history of bleeding disorder, dialysis, or coexisting cancer that is distinct in primary site or histology from the cancer evaluated in this study • Serious, uncontrolled infection • Unresolved chronic toxicity > grade 1 from prior therapy • Use of strong CYP3A4 inhibitors or strong inducers within 7 days prior to the start of study treatment and for the duration of the study

Much is known about flu viruses, but little is understood about how they reproduce inside human host cells, spreading infection.

Helicobacter pylori, a bacterium known for its ties to gastric cancer, may have health benefits for the human immune system, potentially opening doors to new treatments for gastrointestinal infections.

The final stage of HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) infection when the immune system has been diminished to the point that the body can no longer fight life - threatening infections.

The virus, commonly known as VSV, can infect cattle, but it rarely causes serious infections in humans.

Costs of treating human infection continue to increase as formerly effective types of antibiotics no longer halt dangerous bacteria.

Lauric acid, a specific type of MCT in coconut oil, is known for its antimicrobial effects and is a huge component of human breast milk that helps prevent infections in newborn babies.

Fecal Transplant FMT, also known as fecal microbiota transplant, human probiotic infusion, bacteriotherapy, and fecal transplant, is a powerful infusion of healthy colon flora treatment which has been used to treat c diff, aka C difficile infections, inflammatory bowel disease, irritable bowel syndrome, autoimmune disease, dysbiotic gut flora as well as other conditions.

Lyme disease is an infection caused by a bacterium called Borrelia burgdorferi that's spread to humans by infected black - legged ticks, commonly known as deer ticks.

Cat scratch fever, also known as cat scratch disease (CSD), is a bacterial infection that is transmitted from cats to humans through a scratch.

Sometimes the size of a pinhead, flea bites have been known to cause such serious afflictions in humans as dermatitis, anemia, Rickettsioses, secondary infection at the wound site and — at their most severe — plague.

To date, there are no known cases of human infection resulting from exposure to infected cats.

I don't think that it is known with certainty whether dogs are better able to resist bacterial infections than humans or other species.

We all know how devastating this particular infection can be for us humans.

Did you know that companion animals can suffer from many of the same skin problems as we humans can, such as allergies and infections?

Neither protozoa has been known to cause infection in humans.

«It used to be one of the great no - no's to think of an animal in a hospital,» says Alan Beck, director of the Center for the Human - Animal Bond at Purdue University, citing the fear of causing infection.