Sentences with phrase «only human infection»

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

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But with the exception (perhaps) of some infections, human disease, including lung cancer, is rarely «caused» by one (and only one) thing.

And, it is not only nutritious, but human milk contains other substances that keep children healthy and help them to fight off diseases and infections.

These findings allowed researchers to create a chimera virus: a mouse virus with a human viral gene that can be used to test molecules that inhibit human LANA protein in an animal model of disease, treating not only human herpes virus infection but also its associated cancers.

The current test is only able to analyze part of the human immune system, namely the B - cells but not the T - cells, which are needed as helper cells to fight the infection and whose activity indicates the presence of an infection.

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.

«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.

More commonly known as human herpesvirus 5 or HCMV, cytomegalovirus is the most frequently transmitted intrauterine infection and can result in serious disabilities at birth, though most people will exhibit only mild symptoms or none at all.

Although only 25 human cases were reported globally in 2015, more than 450 infections were reported in dogs in Chad last year.

Four distinct human serotypes of dengue sicken humans, and an initial infection with one typically causes only mild disease.

Humans aren't the only species that struggle with sexually transmitted infections.

This pushes back the first recorded case of AIDS in the US by about a decade: the only earlier known case of human HIV infection was in Zaire in 1959.

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.

«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.

«If we can develop ways to manipulate this and encourage the white blood cells to recognise and expel organisms like this, we might be able to limit the spread of infection not only for Cryptococcosis but for other invasive pathogens that are a significant threat to human health world - wide.»

The evolutionary acquisition of novel CRISPR elements, which are only in pathogenic Leptospira, probably hastened adaptation to human infection.

They exist in all mammals and birds that have been examined, including humans, and become destructive only when their shape is altered, a change that occurs either through infection by an already infectious protein or through a genetic mutation.)

For example, Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C can only infect humans and chimpanzees, and although this species barrier prevents us from being susceptible to every infection out there, the flipside is that finding treatments for human infections can be extremely difficult.

This premature enthusiasm has more recently given way to caution as the technology has gradually been transferred to humans, with only limited short - term success.3 Finally, since HIV usually enters the body through mucosal surfaces — the vagina and rectum — augmenting an immune response at these portals of entry by using what scientists call mucosal AIDS vaccines might be an additional way to improve protection against infection.

Immunity One cup of spinach contains over 337 % of the RDA of vitamin A that not only protects and strengthens «entry points» into the human body, such as mucous membranes, respiratory, urinary and intestinal tracts, but is also a key component of lymphocytes (or white blood cells) that fight infection.

Like a human cold it only takes one infected dog to spread the infection and may do so for days or even weeks after they have seemed to recover.

Only cats hunt more rodents in human habitat than street dogs; no other species more effectively rousts monkeys, including macaques, who carry more than 100 infections transmissible by bite or through fecal matter that can kill humans.

Although the disease only affects cats, it is recommended that immunocompromised people (ie chemo patients and human AIDS patients) not reside with FeLV positive cats because these cats are more likely to harbor opportunistic infections that could be transmitted to immunocompromised humans.

De-worming recommendations are made by veterinary professionals not only for the health of the animals involved, but also to reduce the risk of human infection by managing the parasite burden in the environment.

The feline herpes virus type 1 (FHV - 1) is a relatively common upper respiratory viral infection that affects cats (and only cats — it can not be passed to humans, dogs, or other species).

The only reason Emmett hasn't turned into an Outlaw — a once - human lifeform overcome with this Rift infection — is because his comrade Cutter stopped the infection before it was too late.

They express not only his despair over the aids infection, but also carry reflections on religion and human existence.