Sentences with phrase «of infection than other»

Because the mites are transmitted from animal to animal, pets that spend time in shelters, kennels, dog parks, groomers, and clinics have a higher risk of infection than other pets.

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I had a history of getting super sick with sinus infections and migraines, but other than that, I felt like I could pretty much eat anything I wanted to, and I'd be ok.

Young infants are at a higher risk of dying from this infection than any other age group.

Human breast milk that is frozen or stored for longer than 48 hours loses a significant amount of its antioxidant content, making it less able to help infants fight off free radicals that play a role in allowing infections and other diseases.

Today, parents have more information available to them than ever before, and while it's nice to be able to connect with other parents online or to quickly research ear infection symptoms in the middle of the night, all of that information from blog posts and social media can make you feel inadequate.

To minimize HIV transmission risk, breastfeeding should be discontinued as soon as feasible, taking into account local circumstances, the individual woman's situation, and the risks of replacement feeding (including infections other than HIV and malnutrition).

On the other side of the debate, the American Academy of Pediatrics states that the benefits for the infant in terms of reduced risk of infection, adult obesity, allergies, and asthma are so great that breastfeeding must be viewed as an «investment in your child's future» rather than a «lifestyle choice.»

The World Health Organization says that giving anything other than breast milk to infants younger than 6 months may increase the risk of bacterial infection, serious allergies, and stomach irritation.

Heath campaigners say that for decades, formula has consistently proven to be less healthy than breastfeeding - boosting the risk of diabetes, infections and other medical problems, and, when used exclusively, contributes to 21 percent higher infant mortality.

Not only does spacing out vaccines leave kids vulnerable to infections for longer than necessary — putting them at risk of exposure to diseases like measles and whooping cough while they wait to be vaccinated — but they also require more frequent visits to a doctor's office where they could catch other diseases as well.

Preventing SIDS is the most important reason to put your baby to sleep on her back, but a study published in 2003 in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine found other benefits, too: Infants who sleep on their back suffer from fewer ear infections, fevers, and stuffy noses than babies who sleep in other positions.

Physiologic sleep studies have found that breastfed infants are more easily aroused from sleep than their formula - fed counterparts.247, 248 In addition, breastfeeding results in a decreased incidence of diarrhea, upper and lower respiratory infections, and other infectious diseases249 that are associated with an increased vulnerability to SIDS and provides overall immune system benefits from maternal antibodies and micronutrients in human milk.250, 251 Exclusive breastfeeding for 6 months has been found to be more protective against infectious diseases compared with exclusive breastfeeding to 4 months of age and partial breastfeeding thereafter.249

Yeast infections are more common during pregnancy than in other times of a woman's life.

Some hospital trusts are doing better than others and those that are not so successful, for whatever reason, need to learn from hospitals that are continuing to respond to the challenge of prevention and control of healthcare associated infections and bringing their infection numbers down.

«Because BX795 targets a common pathway that many viruses use to replicate inside the cell, it could be a new kind of broad - spectrum antiviral that might be used to treat other viral infections, including HSV - 2, which primarily affects the genitals, and HIV, although we have not yet tested it on viruses other than HSV - 1.»

When controlling for other factors that affect risk of HIV infection (e.g., condom use), the researchers found that users of injectable DMPA were 50 % more likely to become infected with HIV than those not using hormonal contraceptives.

In a study published in the May 29, 2014, edition of Molecular Ecology Resources, Duke researchers Peter Larsen, Ryan Campbell and Anne Yoder used high - throughput sequencing on sifaka blood samples to generate sequence data for more than 150,000 different sifaka antibodies — protective molecules that latch on to bacteria, viruses and other foreign invaders in the body and fight them off before they cause infection.

Mutations in the genes that defend the body against cancer - related viruses and other infections may play a larger role in breast cancer than previously thought, according to a study at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Smoking overall, however, was unrelated to the risk of readmission without surgery, or for reoperation for reasons other than infections.

«This peptide is exciting in the sense that it provides a new alternative for treating these infections, which are predicted to kill more people annually than any other cause of death in our society, including cancer.»

Patients newly diagnosed with primary SjS (in people with no other rheumatic disease) were around 11 times more likely to have had a prior infection with NTM than a matched group of controls.

Less than two months later, the Wolbachia infection rate was close to 100 percent in one community of mosquitoes and 80 percent in the other.

They discovered that while overall rates of infection remained the same, there was significantly more CD4 T cell death if HIV was spread by infection from other cells than by free - floating virus.

These estimates are orders of magnitude higher than those for the so - called general population in Britain, but comparable with figures for certain other groups at high risk of infection, such as gay men attending clinics for sexually transmitted disease.

The findings suggest that the Zika virus may replicate more robustly in the female reproductive tract than at other sites of infection, with potentially dire consequences for reproduction, said the researchers.

Primary infection antisera did not neutralize all viruses of the same DENV type any better than other types did up to 2 years after infection and did not show improved neutralization to homologous type isolates.

CDC and health agencies in other countries have been baffled by the lack of severe disease of swine flu outside of Mexico, which now suspects the infection has led to the hospitalization of nearly 2000 people and more than 150 deaths.

Even though this rate is lower than for other STDs, De Vincenzi says it is a significant number of infections.

In humans, Salmonella Dublin has higher hospitalization and fatality rates than other Salmonella types; it causes systemic infection of body tissues, similar to typhoid.

Women undergo more cesarean sections each year in the United States than any other major surgery, with the procedure carrying a significant rate of infection at the incision site.

Bartoshuk was surprised to find that subjects with a history of moderate to severe middle - ear infections were 62 percent more likely than the others to be obese, according to data presented at the American Psychological Association meeting in August.

More than half the women surveyed in the South African township of Soweto felt they were at risk of infection with HIV — not because of their own sexual behaviour but because their men had other lovers.

Published today in Genome Research, the study examined a large collection of E. coli isolated from patients with bloodstream infection over more than a decade, some of which were resistant to numerous antibiotics while others were not.

Although there is substantial evidence that the virus can be transmitted by breast - feeding, the risk to infants is lower than the risks of death from other infections and malnutrition.

Using a mathematical model that combines a huge number of cattle and badgers that have TB, the researchers were able to quantify the relationship between the two animals and use a big data approach to show that the route of infection for cattle is from other cattle rather than from other species.

As part of the study, more than 250 UK and Ireland healthcare and other workers were tested for Ebola virus antibodies after returning from West Africa — no evidence of missed infections was found.

I don't really know what to make out of it, other than he's controlling viral replication or he doesn't have HIV that can restart the infection.

Vaccination thus does more than safeguard children against measles; it also stops other infections taking advantage of measles - induced immune damage.

But patients who had neurological infections had a higher risk of dying of some other diseases than the general population.

It corroborates the findings of another NIAID - funded study demonstrating that TMP - SMX treatment resulted in better clinical outcomes than placebo for MRSA skin abscesses, and also upholds other findings that both clindamycin and TMP - SMX are equally beneficial in treating MRSA skin infections.

Influenza remains a major health problem in the United States, resulting each year in an estimated 36,000 deaths and 200,000 hospitalizations.4 Those who have been shown to be at high risk for the complications of influenza infection are children 6 to 23 months of age; healthy persons 65 years of age or older; adults and children with chronic diseases, including asthma, heart and lung disease, and diabetes; residents of nursing homes and other long - term care facilities; and pregnant women.4 It is for this reason that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recommended that these groups, together with health care workers and others with direct patient - care responsibilities, should be given priority for influenza vaccination this season in the face of the current shortage.1 Other high - priority groups include children and teenagers 6 months to 18 years of age whose underlying medical condition requires the daily use of aspirin and household members and out - of - home caregivers of infants less than 6 months old.1 Hence, in the case of vaccine shortages resulting either from the unanticipated loss of expected supplies or from the emergence of greater - than - expected global influenza activity — such as pandemic influenza, which would prompt a greater demand for vaccination5 — the capability of extending existing vaccine supplies by using alternative routes of vaccination that would require smaller doses could have important public health implicatother long - term care facilities; and pregnant women.4 It is for this reason that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recommended that these groups, together with health care workers and others with direct patient - care responsibilities, should be given priority for influenza vaccination this season in the face of the current shortage.1 Other high - priority groups include children and teenagers 6 months to 18 years of age whose underlying medical condition requires the daily use of aspirin and household members and out - of - home caregivers of infants less than 6 months old.1 Hence, in the case of vaccine shortages resulting either from the unanticipated loss of expected supplies or from the emergence of greater - than - expected global influenza activity — such as pandemic influenza, which would prompt a greater demand for vaccination5 — the capability of extending existing vaccine supplies by using alternative routes of vaccination that would require smaller doses could have important public health implicatOther high - priority groups include children and teenagers 6 months to 18 years of age whose underlying medical condition requires the daily use of aspirin and household members and out - of - home caregivers of infants less than 6 months old.1 Hence, in the case of vaccine shortages resulting either from the unanticipated loss of expected supplies or from the emergence of greater - than - expected global influenza activity — such as pandemic influenza, which would prompt a greater demand for vaccination5 — the capability of extending existing vaccine supplies by using alternative routes of vaccination that would require smaller doses could have important public health implications.

Cirrhosis patients are more than five times more likely to pick up infections in hospital than patients with other chronic conditions, due to reduced immunity which is a well - recognized feature of the disease.

The editorial also notes other challenges in dealing with latent TB infection such as the need for new, shorter and less toxic regimens for the treatment of latent TB infection given that less than 50 percent of patients complete treatment for latent TB infection.

Dr Linda Wakim and her colleagues in the Laboratory of Professor Jose Villadangos from the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, came closer to understanding why some people fight infections better than others during influenza season.

Some individuals may be better suited than others to work in high - risk job placements during an infectious disease outbreak because they are more likely to have an adequate response to a vaccine, or because their genotype is associated with a lower risk of developing severe infection.

However, in patient 1, one of the most severely affected infants, important brain structures such as the thalamus could not be identified, and the mother reported symptoms of ZIKV infection later than others at 18 weeks of gestation.

Zika virus infection has spread to more than 45 countries in the Americas and 3 US territories, and, most recently, local transmission was confirmed in the continental United States in the state of Florida.11 Mosquito - borne transmission of ZIKV in other areas of the United States is possible based on the estimated range of its vectors (Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus).12 Recognition of the CZS phenotype by pediatric clinicians will help ensure appropriate and timely evaluation and follow - up of affected infants.

The included birth defects were based primarily on case reports of outcomes occurring in association with Zika virus infection during pregnancy; there is more evidence for some of these birth defects than for others, and a causal link has not been established for all.5,10,12,21 - 27 Because much of the focus to date has been on microcephaly and brain abnormalities, data were summarized in 2 mutually exclusive categories: (1) brain abnormalities with or without microcephaly regardless of the presence of additional birth defects and (2) neural tube defects and other early brain malformations, eye abnormalities, and other consequences of central nervous system dysfunction among those without evident brain abnormalities or microcephaly.

However, the second form of immune selection — passage of acute - phase parasites from hosts injected with antiserum at the beginning of the infection — yielded parasites with lower virulence to naïve mice than their ancestors in one study (Wellde and Diggs 1978), although it had no impact on virulence in two other studies (see Briggs and Wellde 1969).

«Eventually, this is likely to result in decreased rates of HIV but also potentially higher rates of other sexually transmitted infections, which are much more easily treated than HIV,» he said.