Sentences with phrase «many upper respiratory viruses»

The year my son was born, the upper respiratory virus RSV was prevalent, he never caught it.

After quitting smoking via vaping, my lung capacity, health, and resistance to upper respiratory viruses improved dramatically, and I was able to reduce the nicotine in the fluid until it was eliminated.

In cats, Herpes is an upper respiratory virus (not an STD); it's also called «rhinotracheitis» and is one of the components of the combination upper respiratory / panleukopenia (feline distemper) vaccine for kittens.

For cats, this means administration of the FVRCP vaccination, which provides protection against panleukopenia and the two upper respiratory viruses, herpes and calici, at the time of intake.

Vaccination is unlikely to be completely preventive for the upper respiratory viruses and is instead meant to minimize the severity of the symptoms.

Herpes virus (not the same strain that people get, and so not contagious to people from cats or vice versa), is an upper respiratory virus that settles in the nasal passages and in the eyes.

Feline calicivirus (FCV) is an upper respiratory virus that produces flu - like symptoms in cats.

Required vaccines for cats include Rabies and FVRCP (upper respiratory virus).

All cats groomed at Cat Care Hospital must be current on the FVRCPC vaccine (distemper and airborne upper respiratory viruses) and free of external parasites (ex.

Staff from HCAS recently attended the Maddie's Fund Shelter Medicine Conference in Jacksonville and learned about new research on upper respiratory viruses including a new PCR test from Cornell University.

Cats receive a «three - way» vaccine including feline panleukopenia (distemper), rhinotracheitis (herpes) and calicivirus (upper respiratory viruses).

A conjunctival swab can be used to detect feline upper respiratory viruses; feces can be used to identify the causative agent of diarrhea.

These viruses are commonly known as feline distemper and the three major upper respiratory viruses affecting cats.

FeLV is fragile outside the cat, unlike many upper respiratory viruses, and can live only about three days under optimum conditions.

We frequently treat minor illnesses and ailments, like ear infections, allergies, upper respiratory viruses, skin and parasite infections, lameness, arthritis and more.

Illnesses such as the feline leukemia virus, feline immunodeficiency, feline upper respiratory viruses, ringworm, heartworm, and rabies can debilitate your cat and shorten their life.

FIV - infected cats are also predisposed to infections such as toxoplasmosis, giardiasis, ringworm, and recurrent upper respiratory viruses.

For a vaccine to generate solid long - lasting immunity, the infection must be fairly generalized to the entire body (such as feline distemper or canine parvovirus) rather than localized to one organ system (such as kennel cough or feline upper respiratory viruses).

Not exact matches

The other is Scanaflu, an upper respiratory infection tool that uses the smartphone as a reader to determine if you have Strep A, Influenza A, Influenza B, adenovirus, or RSV — a common, cold - like virus.

The common cold is an infection of the nose and throat (upper respiratory tract infection) that can be caused by one of more than 100 viruses.

«There's virus up there in the upper respiratory tract, so the question is why isn't it being transmitted.»

For the viruses to be transmitted efficiently, they have to multiply in the upper portion of the respiratory system so that they can be transmitted by coughing and sneezing.»

Similarly for Ebola, the virus would have to develop attachments that would allow it to easily attach receptors in the upper respiratory pathway — something that neither it (nor any of its viral cousins) has been known to do in the wild.

A new study has found that a novel avian - origin H7N9 influenza A virus, which has recently emerged in humans, attaches moderately or abundantly to the epithelium of both the upper and lower respiratory tracts.

These viruses include measles, Epstein - Barr, influenza A and B, and others that cause upper respiratory infections.

They found that like other avian influenza viruses, the H7N9 viruses attached more strongly to lower parts of the human respiratory tract than to upper parts.

Our surveillance in Saudi Arabia in 2014 and 2015 showed that viruses of the MERS - CoV species and a human CoV 229E — related lineage co-circulated at high prevalence, with frequent co-infections in the upper respiratory tract of dromedary camels.

Patients are recognising that most upper respiratory infections are viral and virus infections do not respond to antibiotics.

SARS was contained by isolating suspected cases, partly because it did not spread quickly, but also because those it infected became very ill before the virus moved into the upper respiratory system.

These relatively fat particles can cause infections in the upper respiratory pathway but do not reach the lungs, where influenza virus can cause life - threatening pneumonia.

Cats that have contracted the virus in the shelter have displayed upper respiratory symptoms such as runny nose, congestion and general malaise, as well as lip smacking and excessive salivation.

The risk of a pandemic would ratchet up substantially should the virus acquire the ability to bind to receptors in the upper respiratory tract, Kuiken warns.

These highly - infectious viruses are the leading cause of upper and lower respiratory tract disease in young children, including Croup, responsible for thousands of hospitalizations in the developed world, and hundreds of thousands of deaths each year in developing countries.

Memory T cells that patrol only the upper respiratory tract could stop viruses from ever reaching the lungs, Wakim's team found.

This highly - infectious virus is the leading cause of upper and lower respiratory tract disease in young children, and each year results in hundreds of thousands of deaths in developing countries and thousands of hospitalisations world - wide.

Pink eye often accompanies a cold or some other upper respiratory infection, in which case it suggests that a virus may be responsible for the eye symptoms.

«Most upper respiratory infections are caused by viruses; a minority are caused by bacteria,» says Lauri Hicks, MD, medical director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's «Get Smart: Know When Antibiotics Work» program.

Viruses which circulate in the environment typically bring about upper - respiratory tract infections.

It's the most prevalent type of upper respiratory infection (URI) and is caused by a virus (rhinovirus).

Epstein - Barr virus reactivation and upper - respiratory illness in elite swimmers.

Calicivirus is a virus that causes an upper respiratory infection.

Although cats don't catch human cold viruses, our feline friends get feline upper respiratory infection, which is commonly caused by the herpesvirus and calicivirus.

Kennel cough in dogs is a highly contagious upper respiratory infection which can be caused by bacteria or a virus.

Feline herpesvirus (viral rhinotracheitis): This virus causes upper respiratory infection with fever, sneezing, eye and nasal discharge, conjunctivitis (inflammation of the inner eyelids and mucous membranes around the eyes), inflammation of the cornea (keratitis), and lethargy.

Calicivirus: This highly contagious and ubiquitous virus is one of the major causes of upper respiratory infection in cats.

Just as with the human common cold, the virus that causes this upper respiratory - tract infection (cat «flu») is easily transmitted from one cat to another, so vaccination is imperative if your pet will come in contact with other cats.

This virus is another major cause of upper respiratory - tract infection (cat «flu) in cats.

However, most cats have already acquired the herpes 1 virus before their first kitten - hood vaccination and vaccine immunity to most upper - respiratory pathogens in dogs and cats is short - lived.

Ninety percent of feline upper respiratory infections are caused by either feline herpes (also called the «rhinotracheitis» virus) or feline calicivirus.

Feline herpes virus is a common disease in cats, causing upper respiratory infection, conjunctivitis (inflammation of the pink tissue surrounding the eye) and in some cases inflammation or ulceration of the cornea.