Sentences with phrase «of infections caused by virus»

However, it is not used for the treatment of infections caused by virus or fungi.

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Upper Respiratory Infections: these are very common and include symptoms of a clear or green runny nose and cough and are usually caused by cold viruses.

Although eye infections can be caused by a virus, if your child's eye is red and has a lot of green and yellow drainage, then he likely will need topical antibiotic eye drops.

Since most infections in children are caused by viruses, an antibiotic will be of no use.

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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.

The most common cause of vomiting in babies is an infection of the intestinal tract by any virus that happens to be going around.

Many times sore throats are caused by run of the mill viruses that will clear up on their own, but it is important to make sure your toddler doesn't need antibiotics for an infection such as hand, foot, and mouth or a bacterial case of streptococcus.

«Consistent and correct use of latex condoms reduces the risk of sexual transmission of many infections, including those caused by other viruses.»

Researchers from Instituto de Medicina Molecular (iMM) Lisboa have created a chimera virus that allows the study of molecules to treat cancers caused by human herpes virus infection in mice models of disease.

A new discovery from the University of Alberta's Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry could open the door to one day treat or prevent diseases caused by West Nile virus and Dengue virus infections.

As the infection was unlikely to have been caused by direct gorilla - to - human transmission, «it would be surprising if there aren't more human cases», says David Robertson, a bioinformaticist at the University of Manchester, UK, who was part of the team that analysed the virus (Nature Medicine, DOI: 10.1038 / nm.2016).

In practice, doctors prescribe an antibiotic to more than 70 percent of all adults with a sore throat, says the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), even though almost all throat infections are caused by viruses, for which antibiotics are useless.

Furthermore, the defects observed are specific to an infection by ZIKV, as other neurotropical viruses of the flavivirus family (West Nile virus, yellow fever,...) did not cause microcephaly, in contrast to Zika virus.

Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, or acquired immune deficiency syndrome (or acronym AIDS or Aids), is a collection of symptoms and infections resulting from the specific damage to the immune system caused by infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).

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.

The researchers collaborated with various paediatric wards in Swiss and Australian hospitals to study cases of children who needed intensive care after a severe respiratory infection (bronchiolitis or pneumonia) caused by a virus.

An international research collaboration coordinated by Fellay has discovered the reason for some of these infections: they are caused by mutations of a gene that plays a part in recognising certain cold - inducing viruses.

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.

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.

The first clue to the importance of this molecular mimicry in herpes stromal keratitis (HSK), an autoimmune disease of the eye caused by infection with herpes virus 1 (HSV - 1), came about 3 years ago.

Hepatitis C is an inflammation of the liver caused by an infection with the hepatitis C virus.

Louca suspects that interactions between organisms that are not directly related to metabolic function, such as infection by viruses or «chemical warfare» between microbes, may be causing this variation of species that can not be explained based on environmental conditions.

PANS is a new name for an old idea: that infections by bacteria, viruses or parasites can cause the sudden onset of neuropsychiatric ailments such as Tourette's and obsessive - compulsive disorder (OCD).

The CDC estimates that up to 30 percent of antibiotic prescriptions in outpatient settings may be unnecessary, such as those written for sore throats and sinus infections, which most often are caused by viruses.

Antimicrobial resistance is the ability of a microorganism, such as bacterium or virus, to resist the effects of an antimicrobial, which was originally effective for treatment of infections caused by it.

Last week, Texas public health authorities announced a case of Zika virus infection likely caused by a mosquito bite.

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 study shows that the severity of the 1918 pandemic was caused by the virus itself, not the lack of good medical care or secondary bacterial infections, says epidemiologist Arnold Monto of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Institute Director Professor Mark von Itzstein, of the Institute for Glycomics, said research findings published in the international journal Angewandte Chemie International Edition this week offers a new direction in drug discovery for the treatment of respiratory infections caused by this virus.

Although Zika infections typically cause only mild symptoms, concerns have been heightened by Brazil's reports of an unusual increase in microcephaly — unusually small head size — in babies born in areas where the virus is circulating.

New research from La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology lays the groundwork to parse how the virus interacts with its host and causes disease by pinpointing CD8 + T cells, a subset of T cells more commonly known as cytotoxic or killer T cells, as important gatekeepers that control Zika infection or limit the severity of disease.

BnAbs work by attaching to HIV and covering up the parts of the virus that it uses to attach to a person's cells, blocking HIV from being able to cause an infection.

The Royal Free Hospital has provided updates to the condition of Pauline Cafferkey, the British Nurse who was readmitted to hospital following infection with Ebola virus in 2014, saying that she is recovering well after developing meningitis caused by Ebola.

The cause of her readmission into hospital was meningitis — infection of her nervous system, brain and spinal cord, by Ebola virus that remained from her initial infection.

A lot of people don't even know it because if you're not feeling well for a couple days, you don't necessarily think that it's caused by a dengue virus infection.

By far, the most significant cause of cervical cancer, as well as other ano - genital cancers, is infection with a virus — the human papillomavirus (HPV).

In addition, the mechanism by which the ZIKV infection can cause fetal brain damage is not known, and some reports suggest that the virus is able to evade the normal immunoprotective responses of the placenta.15 Zika virus is not the only pathogen associated with neonate microcephaly.

A team led by Roberto Baccala and Michael Oldstone have uncovered a major clue in the mystery of why these virus infections cause illness — often death — in some people and not in others.

Conclusions and Relevance Although the full spectrum of adverse reproductive outcomes caused by Zika virus infection is not yet determined, a distinctive phenotype — the congenital Zika syndrome — has emerged.

«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.

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

It is common medical practice to prescribe antibiotics for acute respiratory infections (colds, sinusitis, ear infections, sore throat, bronchitis) despite the fact that most of these infections are caused by viruses, not bacteria.

Overview: The flu mean the infection of the nose, throat, and lungs caused by the influenza virus and it is a contagious illness...

People assume colds and viruses happen when they catch a bug when in fact many common infections are actually caused by bacteria that are part of the normal flora already present in their systems.

Bone broth also inhibits infection caused by cold and flu viruses, for example, and fights inflammation, courtesy of anti-inflammatory amino acids such as arginine

Due to the communal living setting of dormitories (and less than stellar hygiene habits of most college students) I had recurrent strep throat infections and even contracted mononucleosis, a viral infection caused by the Epstein - Barr Virus (EBV), which is implicated in triggering many autoimmune conditions.

Genital herpesis a sexually transmitted infection that's caused by one of the very most infectious viruses, the herpes virus.

Herpes, which is caused by the herpes simplex virus, is an extremely common sexually transmitted infection that affects more than 50 percent of the entire population at some point of their life.