Sentences with phrase «resistant human diseases»

Scientists agree that the misuse of antibiotics is contributing to the rise of antibiotic - resistant human diseases.

All of agriculture needs to make a big shift in its methods in order to correct its many damaging practices including increasing atmospheric CO2, cruelty to animals, and feeding low levels of antibiotics which produce resistant human disease organisms.

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Today the two horrors are becoming antibiotic - resistant, and AIDS, herpes, chlamydia, genital warts, human papilloma virus, and more than a dozen other sexually transmitted diseases, most of them formerly rare, are ravaging the population.

Or perhaps the answer lies in the interplay between the immune system and human genetic variability: Studies have highlighted genes that strongly influence who is most susceptible — and who is most resistant — to HIV infection and disease.

And he says that in many areas there are strains of human H1N1 in circulation that are resistant to Tamiflu, the drug of choice for treating the disease in humans.

Since 1996, major changes in infectious diseases have occurred, such as the introduction of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) / AIDS and West Nile virus into the United States, advances in HIV / AIDS treatment, changes in vaccine perceptions, and increased concern over drug - resistant pathogens.

Even worse, a hallmark of Leishmania biology happens to be its capacity to adapt to a variety of unpredictable fluctuations inside its human host, notably pharmacological interventions, with important consequences on disease outcome as demonstrated by the emergence of drug resistant clinical isolates.

The results of this original study are highly relevant to other human diseases that dependent on genome instability, such as fungal infection or cancer, and open new venues for anti-leishmanial drug discovery using host - directed strategies that target the parasite's metabolic dependence on the host cell, thus preventing the adaptive evolution of drug resistant parasites.

But urban life may have also influenced human genes, making the descendants of ancient city dwellers more resistant to disease.

By contrast, cats, humans and dogs are naturally more resistant to the disease, and it is estimated that only about 15 % of bites from affected animals will result in the rabies virus in humans and domestic animals.