Sentences with word «pneumonic»

As it stands, most cases of plague can be cured before Y. pestis might begin to spread within the population as an easily transmissible strain of pneumonic plague.

Installed actuators for HVAC units and dampers, handled installation and calibration of pneumonic instruments for local control systems

Again, like last week in the discussion about the Breastplate of Righteousness, I have a little pneumonic device, an acrostic of sorts, to help you remember these points.

Y. pestis was initially passed from person to person — say, when an infected individual coughed on a healthy person — and most likely caused lung infections known as pneumonic plague or blood infections called septicemic plague, the researchers report October 22 in Cell.

Dr. Sara: I've got a little pneumonic.

«By the time people show symptoms with pneumonic plague, for example, it's almost impossible to rescue them with antibiotics,» says Oyston.

If such a trend occurred during pneumonic plague transmission among humans, it would make sense of the reports from the Middle Ages.

Unlike older vaccines, the new vaccine has already proven effective against pneumonic plague in animal models.

I use the helpful pneumonic PERMA (famously coined by Martin Seligman, father of Positive Psychology) to remember the building blocks of a great culture.

Russian experts believe plague is so transmissible that almost everyone exposed to a contagious person will catch pneumonic plague.

The speed of the transmission recalls pneumonic plague.

Overall risk Pneumonic plague is less virulent than smallpox but more so than anthrax.

You can drive defensively by doing a number of things, there are several pneumonics to remember in order to drive safely.

In order to remember specific points she suggests the use of pneumonics, where each letter stands for a point to be made.

The First Days of School isn't a book of activities, lesson plans, formulas, or pneumonic devices you can teach.

When the disease is instead transmitted by inhaling the bacteria, people develop what's known as pneumonic plague.

Through using this resources students should become aware of where the Black Death originated, how it spread to England and what the main characteristics of Bubonic and Pneumonic Plague were.

(Both forms are caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis; pneumonic plague develops when a person with bubonic plague is not treated, and the infection spreads to the lungs.)

Without treatment, pneumonic plague is 100 % fatal.

Now, for the first time, plague is hitting urban areas, including Antananarivo, the capital, and the port city Toamasina, and it has taken an unusual and especially menacing form: pneumonic plague, which is spread from person to person through coughing or sneezing.

What's particularly alarming now is that pneumonic plague is easily transmitted person to person by coughing, and the outbreak has reached relatively densely populated urban areas, including the capital, Antananarivo, commonly known as Tana.

An epidemic of the deadliest form of plague, pneumonic, has hit major cities and towns in Madagascar and is spreading fast.

Left untreated with antibiotics, pneumonic plague is 100 % fatal.

«To my knowledge, there is only one really major historical case of a pneumonic plague epidemic, and that was in Manchuria in 1910,» he says.

An even deadlier form, pneumonic plague, develops when a person inhales Y. pestis.

We would also expect human - adapted strains, at least during a pneumonic epidemic, to display greater transmissibility.

Soviet scientists had assigned a so - called contagion index of nearly one to pneumonic plague.

Still, plague researcher Robert Brubaker doubts that the black death was pneumonic plague.

Even without genetic engineering, pneumonic plague bombs would make a formidable weapon.

The bacteria cause three different kinds of plague, bubonic, septicemic and pneumonic.

Overall, all three of the new possible vaccines stimulated long - lasting immune responses capable of protecting animals from developing the pneumonic plague as late as four to five months after vaccination.

Pneumonic plague is the most deadly form, often killing its victims within 24 hours.

In its pneumonic form, such as what is now observed in Madagascar, the plague is only transmitted from human to human, however.

Terrorists would most likely attack by spraying an aerosol containing plague bacteria, causing the pneumonic variety.

There are two main strains - bubonic and pneumonic.

But pneumonic plague can be passed on by face - to - face contact, through the inhalation of bacteria from a sneeze or cough of an infected person.

While there he got my first real taste of microbiology and the BSL3, working on a vaccine against the pneumonic plague.

What materials (books, videos, pneumonic devices, visual aids, props, etc.) are available to me for this lesson?

Three clinical syndromes have been described; bubonic (lymph node infection), septicemic (blood infection), and pneumonic (lung infection).

And only five of those were pneumonic plague.

Over that same 23 - year period, five people died of plague contracted through contact with a cat; only two of those cases were pneumonic plague.

«Cats frequently develop the pneumonic form of plague, which is considerably more infectious to humans in close contact, and results in rapidly progressive and frequently fatal disease.»

These are pneumonic plague and septicemic plague.

3) Pneumonic - In the pneumonic form, bubos form in the patient's lungs.

Cats with the pneumonic form of plague need to be isolated and treated by people wearing full protective gear such as gloves and masks.

If a cat has the pneumonic form of plague, it can easily be spread to humans through the air.

This bacteria is transmitted through the bite of infected fleas or rodents, through direct handling of infected animals, or through breathing in the virus when it becomes aerosolized under certain disease conditions (see «pneumonic plague» below).