Sentences with phrase «lead to infections at»

Extensive bacteria in the ear canal from chronic infections can often lead to infections at the site of the incision.

This link can be direct (e.g., puncturing an organ during surgery) or indirect (e.g., leaving a medical instrument in your body after surgery, leading to an infection at some point in the future).

Not exact matches

The natural elements in breast milk that are believed to account for fewer cases of diarrhea and respiratory infections in breast - fed babies appear to be erased when stored breast milk is microwaved, said Dr. Richard Quan, who led the study during a fellowship at Stanford and now is a pediatric gastroenterologist at the Dallas campus of the University of Texas.

If your baby was born prematurely — especially if he was very premature, had an infection, or needed treatment with oxygen — he's at greater risk for developing certain eye problems, including astigmatism (blurred vision), myopia (nearsightedness), retinopathy of prematurity (abnormal blood vessel growth that can lead to blindness), and strabismus (eye misalignment).

This (and the lack of other factors) lead to the baby being at higher risk of illness and infection.

Families who can't afford enough diapers risk diaper rash and urinary tract infections that can lead to hospital visits, says Megan Smith, an assistant professor of psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine.

Increased awareness of the nutritional and medical benefits of breastfeeding, including reduced incidence of infection and allergic reaction, 1 — 9 has led to its endorsement by medical and professional groups10 — 12 and to substantial increases in the number of women choosing to breastfeed.13, 14 A study of 300 British children showed that children who consumed breast milk in the early weeks of life also had significantly higher IQ scores at 7.5 to 8 years on an abbreviated version of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC) than those who were not breastfed.15 The sample was made up of preterm infants fed breast milk or formula by tube.

When you are carrying for 38 weeks and bleeding during pregnancy, it could be due to a rupture in your uterinen This could be dangerous as bleeding occurs due to a disrupted surgical scar in your uterinen In some cases when you are 38 weeks pregnant and bleeding it could be due to placenta previai This is a condition wherein the placenta is positioned in such a way that it covers your birth canala In your 38 weeks pregnant period, this condition could cause you painless bleeding from your vaginan Sometimes cervical problems could lead to 38 weeks fetus bleedingn This type of bleeding could be due to various problems such as cervical infection, cervical incompetence, cervical growths and other such infectionsn At 38 weeks implantation bleeding does not occuru This type of bleeding generally occurs in the first two weeks of your pregnancyc If bleeding occurs when you are 38 weeks pregnant there is no need to panici However, this does not mean that you neglect any bleeding that occursr Always consult your health care providere

New procedures at Lincoln Medical Center have led to fewer infections in the hospital's intensive care unit.

Other colleagues at the INHS, herpetologists Michael Dreslik and Chris Phillips, have been studying eastern massasauga rattlesnakes in the wild for 15 years, and are working closely with Allender to characterize both biological and health factors that lead to infection.

«In addition, newborn herpes is one of the leading infections transmitted from mothers to children at the time of delivery.

At that time, the mortality rate of virus infection was nearly 100 percent and the release led to a huge decrease in the European rabbit population.

Dengue is a mosquito - borne viral infection that infects at least 100 million people every year around the world, with about 4 billion people at risk of the illness, which includes dengue hemorrhagic fever that can lead to spontaneous bleeding, organ failure and death.

This opens the door to connecting human microbiome samples between databases, which has the potential to expose sensitive subject information — for example, a sexually - transmitted infection, detectable from the microbiome sample itself,» said lead author Eric Franzosa, research fellow in the Department of Biostatistics at Harvard Chan.

«We found that a particular vaginal bacterium, Gardnerella vaginalis, did not cause infection during exposure to the urinary tract, but it damaged the cells on the surface of the bladder and caused E. coli from a previous UTI to start multiplying, leading to another bout of disease,» said the study's senior author, Amanda Lewis, PhD, an assistant professor of molecular microbiology and of obstetrics and gynecology at Washington University.

A look back at samples from the Brazilians, collected six months before Zika arrived by a team led by Albert Ko of Yale University, revealed evidence of prior dengue 1 infections in some — and a potential explanation as to why certain people's immune systems fared better against Zika.

To better understand the types of bloodstream infections found in community hospitals, and the risk factors that lead to infection, Anderson and his colleagues collected information on patients seen at community hospitals in Virginia and North Carolina from 2003 to 200To better understand the types of bloodstream infections found in community hospitals, and the risk factors that lead to infection, Anderson and his colleagues collected information on patients seen at community hospitals in Virginia and North Carolina from 2003 to 200to infection, Anderson and his colleagues collected information on patients seen at community hospitals in Virginia and North Carolina from 2003 to 200to 2006.

The research team, led by senior author Timothy P. Cripe, MD, PhD, chief of the Division of Hematology / Oncology / BMT at Nationwide Children's Hospital, found that virotherapy doesn't always require a strong virus infection of cancer cells to cause tumors to shrink or die.

«From tiny studios to penthouse suites, New York City apartments are continually invaded by house mice,» says lead author Simon H. Williams, BSc, a research scientist at the Center for Infection and Immunity.

«We are pleased to have demonstrated such a potent and durable immune response to the vaccine,» said the study's lead author, Sita Awasthi, PhD, a research associate professor of Infectious Diseases at Penn. «If found effective in clinical trials, the vaccine will have a huge impact on reducing the overall prevalence of genital herpes infections and could reduce new HIV infections as well, especially in high - burden regions of sub-Saharan Africa.»

Bacteria that cause life - threatening bloodstream infections in critically ill patients may be growing increasingly resistant to a common hospital antiseptic, according to a recent study led by investigators at Johns Hopkins.

«Teens should receive all three recommended doses to protect against HPV infections that can persist and lead to cervical cancer,» added Dr. Tiro, also Co-Leader of the Cancer Control and Population Science Program at UT Southwestern's Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center.

If we can provide a window for antibiotics to carry out their intended function, we can move towards a clinical model and ultimately cure joint infection,» offered Sana Dastgheyb, Ph.D., lead author on this study and researcher at both Thomas Jefferson University and the National Institutes of Health.

Dr. David Fredricks, a physician - scientist at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and senior author of the study, said the results could lead to a better understanding of how biological conditions may promote infection by the virus that causes AIDS, and perhaps offer targets for future prevention research.

Children with tuberculosis meningitis — a brain and spinal cord infection that leads to disability and death — have a biological fingerprint that can be used to assess the severity of the condition, help decide the best course of treatment, and provide clues for novel treatments, scientists at the Francis Crick Institute, Imperial College London and the University of Cape Town reveal.

For the new study, researchers in Diamond's laboratory, led by first author Helen Lazear, PhD, now at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, tested five strains of the Zika virus in the mice: the original strain acquired from Uganda in 1947; three strains that circulated in Senegal in the 1980s; and the French Polynesian strain, which caused infections in 2013 and is nearly identical to the strain causing the current outbreak.

This makes the development of an effective vaccine to protect against infection, as well as antiviral therapy to combat already - existing infections, particularly challenging,» says Dr. Grant Hansman, a virologist who leads the CHS Research Group on Noroviruses at the German Cancer Research Center (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, DKFZ) and Heidelberg University.

«It's going to be like PCR, a tool in the toolbox,» says Jennifer Doudna of the University of California, Berkeley, whose group, in collaboration with one led by Emmanuelle Charpentier, now at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology in Berlin, published the first report that CRISPR could cut specific DNA targets.

However, HAART can not kill the HIV - infected cells,» said the study's lead author, Ekaterina Dadachova, Ph.D., professor of radiology, microbiology and immunology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, N.Y. «Any strategy for curing HIV infection must include a method to eliminate viral - infected cells.»

A team of scientists led by Ronald Harty, a professor of pathobiology and microbiology at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Veterinary Medicine, has identified a mechanism that appears to represent one way that host cells have evolved to outsmart infection by Ebola and other viruses.

«It has been thought that the diarrhea that results from Cryptosporidium infections was causing the dehydration and malnutrition that can lead to stunted growth,» says the study's leader Poonum Korpe, MD, an assistant scientist in the Department of Epidemiology at the Bloomberg School.

At UPMC Mercy, infection preventionists led another study to determine the effectiveness of efforts to encourage hand hygiene among patients.

At the same time, abstaining from breastfeeding is often fatal for infants in the developing world, because its lack in early infancy can lead to fatal infections.

The Adult Cystic Fibrosis Centre at Papworth Hospital, Cambridgeshire, has led the development and implementation of new infection control policies to reduce the risk of transmission, now adopted across the UK and elsewhere.

«We have shown earlier that H. pylori, which is one of the most common infections worldwide and the causative agent for peptic ulcer disease and also cancer, uses adhesin proteins to attach to the stomach,» says lead - author Thomas Borén, professor at the Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics at Umeå University in Sweden.

Researchers found 53 existing drugs that may keep the Ebola virus from entering human cells, a key step in the process of infection, according to a study led by researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and published today in the Nature Press journal Emerging Microbes and Infections.

A team of researchers from three departments at New Jersey Medical School, led by Michael Mathews and Hartmut Hanauske - Abel, previously showed that Ciclopirox, commonly used by dermatologists and gynecologists to treat fungal infections, inhibits the expression of HIV genes in culture.

This goal of this study, led by Geisbert and Ian MacLachlan, executive vice president and chief technical officer of Tekmira Pharmaceuticals, was to determine whether it is possible to protect animals against a lethal MARV - Angola infection when treatment was started at a point when animals have detectable levels of the virus in their system and show the first clinical signs of disease.

Work previously published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (doi: 10.1073 / pnas.0906112107) from Lee's collaborator Arul Jayaraman, professor in the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University who holds a master's from Tufts School of Engineering, had already demonstrated that indole, a bacterial metabolite derived from the aromatic amino acid tryptophan, caused an anti-inflammatory response in the gut and increased resistance to pathogen colonization that could lead to infection

The devastating impact of this disease is due in part to the seasonal dynamics of infection and transmission, according to a new study led by scientists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and published December 3 in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

But the remarkably high rate of infection during hibernation leads to high mortality rates at the time of year when bat populations are naturally at their lowest, before the females give birth in the summer.

«A highly infectious case, combined with poor infection control can easily lead to this kind of cluster,» says Mike Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.

She said that a failure to maintain NFkB signals at this point, or even after memory T cells have been produced, leads to a loss of the population of memory T cells that have been generated after the infection.

«Many children unnecessarily receive broad - spectrum antibiotics for common infections, which can lead to antibiotic resistance and unnecessary side effects,» said study leader Jeffrey Gerber, MD, PhD, associate director for Inpatient Research Activities in the Center for Pediatric Clinical Effectiveness at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP).

Research led by scientists at the Gladstone Institutes has identified the precise chain of molecular events in the human body that drives the death of most of the immune system's CD4 T cells as an HIV infection leads to AIDS.

But a crucial leap occurred in 2012 when a group led by Jennifer Doudna of the University of California, Berkeley, and Emmanuelle Charpentier, now at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology in Berlin, demonstrated the possibility of simple CRISPR - based gene - editing to a broad audience of scientists with a paper in Science.

Recently, many scientists came to suspect that a protein called NF - κB, a master regulator of infection and inflammation, was at work; in 1996, several groups had found that it also inhibited cell death, which can lead to tumor formation.To find out whether suspicions about NF - κB were well - founded, molecular biologist Michael Karin of the University of California, San Diego, and his colleagues turned to a mouse model of colitis.

Childhood and infancy factors have been linked to a predisposition to developing Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) infection, the leading cause of health - care associated diarrhea, according to new research being presented at the American College of Gastroenterology's 78th Annual Scientific Meeting in San Diego, CA.

Now, scientists at the University of California, Riverside and colleagues around the world have made a discovery, reported in this month's issue of PLOS Pathogens, that could lead to more effective diagnostic and treatment strategies for worm infections and their symptoms.

Most mcr - 1 cases appear to be happening in E. coli, the most common cause of urinary tract infections, said lead study author José R. Mediavilla, MBS, MPH, a research teaching specialist at PHRI.