Sentences with phrase «opportunistic infections in»

Hospitals routinely use fluoroquinolones for treating opportunistic infections in patients.
Benefit of oral zinc supplementation as an adjunct to zidovudine (AZT) therapy against opportunistic infections in AIDS.
Many of the pathogenic organisms reported to be inactivated by these antimicrobial lipids are those known to be responsible for opportunistic infections in HIV - positive individuals.
In a presentation at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in March last year, lead researcher Alison Rodger announced the remarkable results of the study so far: In two years, there were no instances of transmission of the virus between partners in the study — and that's including the couples who were not using condoms.
Researchers presented results from both sets of trials at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in Seattle this week.
These findings were previously presented at the 2013 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in Atlanta.
Both studies were released during the annual Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in Boston, Mass..
Initial results from PREVAIL III were presented this evening at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in Boston by study co-principal investigator Mosoka Fallah, Ph.D., M.P.H., with the Liberian Ministry of Health.
These include Plasmodium (that causes malaria and about 440,000 deaths every year), Toxoplasma (that causes congenital disease and opportunistic infections in immunocompromised people), Babesia (that infects cattle), etc..
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 150,000 children with HIV under 15 years of age died of opportunistic infections in low - to - middle income countries in 2014 alone.
These findings were presented by one of the co-principal investigators, Fatorma Bolay, Ph.D., director of the Liberian Institute for Biomedical Research, this evening at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in Boston.
But a better understanding of the gut environment will be necessary to achieve the next level of advances in comprehending the disease and fashioning better interventions, researchers said last Wednesday at the annual Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in Boston.

Not exact matches

Results of the Phase II clinical trial were presented Feb. 23 at the 2016 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) in Boston.
One of the studies, published in 2008, suggested that patients whose antiretroviral treatment was deferred until their CD4 cell counts were below 250 were at greater risk of opportunistic infection than those that received antiretroviral treatment when CD4 cell counts were higher than 350.
Rapamycin can make patients susceptible to some opportunistic infections and has been linked to hyperglycemia, which can cause type 2 diabetes, and high levels of triglycerides in the blood, which can contribute to heart disease.
Four separate teams have tried different drugs including sevelamer to reduce microbial translocation and immune activation in humans, so far with no significant benefits, according to results presented at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections which was held in Boston in March.
Mikovits believed that the signature of the immune system deficiencies described by Peterson, in combination with his report of lymphomas, was strongly reminiscent of the immune dysfunction, opportunistic infections, and cancers of AIDS.
Reducing opportunistic infections such as TB in children with HIV could save both lives and money.
A parallel project in an urban area conducted by the Haitian Group for the Study of Kaposi's Sarcoma and Opportunistic Infections (its French acronym is GHESKIO) was similarly successful: it reached 75 percent of its targeted population, and 90 percent returned for the second dose.
The OSU / OHSU College of Pharmacy teamed with the Oregon Health Authority and other collaborators on a two - year study of Acinetobacter baumannii, an opportunistic pathogen associated primarily with infections among patients who have compromised immune systems and are in health care facilities.
Study findings are being presented at the 2015 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) in Seattle, Washington.
The findings were presented publicly for the first time today at a press briefing at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) in Boston.
The slight loss in bone mineral density associated with HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) antiretroviral use is reversible in young adult patients who stop taking the drugs, according to findings presented by researchers today at the 23rd Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) in Boston.
«It's the proof of concept that through therapeutic vaccination we can really re-educate our T cells to control the virus,» says Beatriz Mothe, a clinician at IrsiCaixa AIDS Research Institute in Barcelona, Spain, who presented the results here at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections.
SEATTLE, WASHINGTON — When French scientists presented the results from an Ebola drug trial at a press conference on Monday, they did so with plenty of caveats, but their message was hopeful: The drug, favipiravir, appeared to lower mortality in people with low and medium - high levels of virus in their blood, the researchers told journalists at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) here.
In some patients who take the cocktail, however, the T cell count remains low, making them vulnerable to opportunistic infections.
Over the past decade, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported a substantial increase in incidence of opportunistic premise plumbing pathogens, with Pseudomonas alone accounting for 51,000 hospitalizations per year with more than 6,000 multi-drug resistant infections in 2011.
Additionally, three patients developed an opportunistic viral infection, and five of the six patients displayed a donor - specific downregulation of the peripheral blood mononuclear cell proliferation assay, not reported in patients without MSC treatment 214.
Patients present in infancy recurrent, persistent infections by opportunistic organisms.
This human microbiome includes opportunistic pathogens, microbes that do not normally cause disease in a healthy person but can provoke an infection when the person's immune system is suppressed, a concern known to occur during spaceflight.
Her innovative approaches in this field continue to reveal exciting new insights into how to fight chronic viral infections and associated opportunistic pathogens.
Sunday's «birthday» celebration, a tradition among transplant cancer survivors, capped a day - long workshop on HIV cure research on the eve of a major HIV scientific meeting, the annual Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections, or CROI, being held in Seattle.
A hygienic environment, clean water and adequate sanitation are key factors in preventing opportunistic infections associated with HIV / AIDS, and in the quality of life of people living with the disease.
Stephen Becker, Carl Dieffenbach, Clifford Lane, Richard Chaisson, and Joep Lange, among others, offered their thoughts on the life and legacy of Martin Delaney at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) just weeks after his death in January 2009.
Opportunistic infections are those that occur more frequently and are more severe in people with weakened immune systems.
Stress hormones such as adrenaline and cortisol are secreted in excess, eventually leading to adrenal fatigue and opportunistic infections such as Candida overgrowth or bacterial infection of the small intestine.
The increased incidence of candidiasis, the increased resistance of Candida species to antifungal agents and the rise in lethality associated with infections by Candida spp has prompted renewed research on innovative ways to prevent and treat infections by these opportunistic yeasts.
The theory is that soy is such a good source of antioxidants and high - quality protein that it will help ward off immune deficiencies and prevent the opportunistic infections that often cause death in AIDS patients.
The problem occurs when there is an imbalance between Candida and other microorganisms in the body... This can turn Candida into an opportunistic fungal infection that can overgrow!
But candida is an opportunistic organism, meaning that if the conditions are ripe, it will overtake the good bacteria and have a party in your digestive tract, causing you some undesirable symptoms such as weight gain, brain fog, fatigue, achy joints, gas, bloating, sugar cravings, nail fungus, and yeast infections.
Parasites are opportunistic infections that more easily harbor in bodies weakened by other chronic infections, heavy metal toxicity, and nutritional deficiencies.
In this stage the cat may develop signs of immunodeficiency and secondary conditions, such as opportunistic infections, stomatitis, ocular inflammation, cancer, and respiratory tract infections.
When the skin is inflamed and vulnerable because of flea allergy dermatitis, an opportunistic infection may set in.
Opportunistic infection shall include but will not be limited to pneumosystis carinii pneumonia, organism of Kaposi's Sarcoma, central nervous system lymphoma, and / other malignancies now known or which become known as causes of death in the presence of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome;
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