Sentences with phrase «many human infections»

So far, in this fifth wave, there are 460 confirmed human infections with this H7N9 strain — a total that, in just five months, already outnumbers those in waves 3 and 4 combined.

«If the mosquito transmission cycle gets knocked down by the storms and has to re-amplify, there may not be enough time after October,» said Scott Weaver, director of University of Texas Medical Branch's Institute for Human Infections and Immunity.

Never mind that the agency's own panel of advisers urged that the drug be rejected, citing concerns that it could promote emergence of drug - resistant bacteria and that the drug belongs to an class of drugs needed as a last line of defense against serious human infections.

Risk of human infection is greatest in late spring and summer, in the northeast, as nymphs become adults.

Given that the newly discovered protein FGB1 has such a high affinity and specificity to beta -1,6-glucans from fungi cell walls, it is possibly suitable for the diagnosis of human infections.

So stop human infections and the worm disappears.

Most human infections with H5N1 viruses come directly from birds and are not transmitted to other people.

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

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

The human infection most closely related to it is SARS, a bat virus that jumped to humans and spread worldwide in 2003 — notably among healthcare workers.

Although doctors officially have recorded only seven cases of new human infections in North America, a new study found that five of 13 kissing bugs collected from California and Arizona had bitten a human host — and many of the bugs they collected were infected with Chagas.

Those outbreaks remained localized, however, and triggered few if any human infections.

It is the only human infection that we have successfully exterminated.

Trypanosoma cruzi, the parasite that causes Chagas disease, is divided into six strains, each of which differs in where they are found and in how important they are in human infections..

The virus has caused 1,564 reported human infections to date in several epidemic waves (SN: 3/22/14, p. 32), and 39 percent of people infected have died.

ST258 K. pneumoniae is the predominant cause of human infections among bacteria classified as carbapenem - resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE), which kill approximately 600 people annually in the United States and sicken thousands more.

In March 2013 the first human infections with the avian influenza A (H7N9) virus were reported in China, and since that time hundreds of cases have been documented.

More than three fourths of all current antibiotics used to treat human infections are produced by Actinobacteria, which at the same time carry antibiotic resistance genes.

Whether XMRV caused any human diseases — or was even a transmissible, specifically human infection — was uncertain at best.

It can not be XMRV, since XMRV doesn't exist as a human infection.

Institute for Human Infections and Immunity, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX 77555, USA.

A camel vaccine against MERS coronavirus may reduce the risk of human infection and protect against camelpox too.

«Given the key similarities to human infections, a marmoset model of Zika may be useful for testing of new drug and vaccines,» said Texas Biomedical Research Institute virologist Jean Patterson, Ph.D. «Having an animal model of Zika infection to study may help us identify places where we might be able to block transmission.»

The public health risk posed by these domestic HPAI outbreaks is considered low at this time, but it is possible that human infections with these viruses may occur.

Human infection is begun after deposition of viral particles through the skin in infected arthropod saliva.

The virus is common in dromedary camels, which can be a source of human infections.

Biofilms are involved in 80 percent of human infections and are one of the strongest contributors to the pressing antibiotic resistance problem.

«The pathogen does not care if it jumped from an animal or from another human; the only difference is that in a stuttering transmission an infected person can trigger other chains of human infections.

While the analysis emphasises the potential for human infection via mosquitos, sexual transmission of Zika virus infection is now well documented.

In all, the Centers for Disease Control confirmed 37 cases of human infection.

Though agricultural intensification and climate change could pose new challenges for managing liver fluke transmission, early results in the afflicted Lawa Lake region are promising, with human infection rates in the worst - hit areas down to below 10 %, fish infection rates dropping from 70 % to below 1 %, and no infected snails detected.

Grimes cautions that there is no evidence that this species is one of those that breaks down oil, although other Vibrios that cause human infections do.

To explore the health consequences of bacterial quorum sensing in the crypts, the researchers experimented with an antagonist to turn off quorum sensing in chambers colonized by methicillin - resistant S. aureus (MRSA), an antibiotic - resistant strain of bacteria that causes human infection.

They add, that «by identifying and characterizing LMIT1 as a mitochondrial iron importer, we established a direct connection between iron uptake, mitochondrial redox balance and the development of virulence in Leishmania, significantly expanding future options for controlling these serious human infections.»

No human infections with this virus have ever been reported world - wide.

The majority of the positive samples (72 percent) were 79 - 100 percent similar to astroviruses associated with human infections; 23.5 percent of the samples were similar to mammalian astroviruses isolated from diverse animal hosts including dogs, pigs and sheep.

FMD in people is unrelated to hand, foot, and mouth disease, a human infection with the same symptoms, caused by the Coxsackie A16 virus and several enteroviruses.

Greger says researchers should study human infections more extensively, for instance by testing British farmers and vets for antibodies.

Human infections have followed a consistent pattern, dropping to zero during summer, picking up in the fall, and peaking in January.

Roberts says the group of fungi pigmented with melanin (which includes E. rostratum)-- the same molecule that darkens and protects human skin — seem to be generating more human infections for reasons he does not understand.

Only human strains of CC97 were able to resist the drug, which indicates that the bacteria acquired resistance after they crossed over into humans, presumably through exposure to antibiotics prescribed for treating human infections.

An estimated 70 percent of the kinds of antibiotics that are also used to fight human infections and in surgery are sold in the United States for use in meat production.

But Kobinger also stressed that many unknowns remain about the differences between this monkey model and human infection.

Guinea worm, one of humanity's most painful and gruesome parasites, is on track to be eradicated — the first human infection to be wiped out since smallpox in 1980 (see «Parasite lost: Exterminating Africa's horror worms»).

For their studies on a species of human malaria that is also carried by monkeys, as part of a larger project funded by the UK Research Council Living with Environmental Change initiative, Fornace and her colleagues are using a drone to map changes in mosquito and monkey habitats and correlate how those changes affect human infection.

The second way is through a chain of human infections that allows the bird virus to evolve in people and become increasingly adapted to them.

«Until now, only a few cases of human infections caused by carbapenemase - producing mcr - positive strains of E. coli and K. pneumoniae have been reported,» the investigators write.

Prof Jiming Liu who led the study explained, «By basing our model on wild bird migration and distribution of potentially infected poultry we are able to produce a time line of the estimated risk of human infection with H7N9.

Many human infections are seasonal.»

It is however likely that bats are the natural hosts for the virus, and that human infections are the result of contact with other animals such as camels acting as intermediate hosts.