Sentences with phrase «resistant strain infected»

The bug, called shigella sonnei, causes an estimated 500,000 cases of diarrhea in the U.S. each year, and the CDC reports that between May 2014 and February 2015, a drug - resistant strain infected 243 people in 32 states and Puerto Rico.

Not exact matches

Strains of the H7N9 flu virus (shown) can mutate to become drug resistant and still maintain their ability to infect cells, a new study shows.

The mutated, drug resistant H7N9 virus, however, was still able to infect cultured human cells and spread between laboratory animals as efficiently as nonmutated strains, researchers report December 10 in Nature Communications.

They're in gyms, at the beach, and increasingly, on the farm.One strain of methicillin - resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) known as CC398 has been rapidly spreading through poultry and pig farms, infecting people who work with the animals around the world (up to 26.5 percent of farm workers sampled in the Neatherlands), and popping up in nearly half of all meat sampled in the U.S.

Treatment failure may have occurred because HIV - infected participants did not take their antiretroviral drugs as prescribed or had an HIV strain that was resistant to one or more of the drugs in their treatment regimen.

Additionally, there was a greater — but not statistically significant — risk of death among pediatric patients infected with the resistant bacterial strains.

Nearly half a million newly infected patients harbor multidrug - resistant (MDR) strains of M. tuberculosis.

To see if new mutations helped resistant strains grow stronger, Andersson and his colleagues infected mice with Salmonella typhimurium, which causes food poisoning.

They found that 43.7 % of the study participants were infected with a tuberculosis strain that was resistant to at least one second - line drug, and 6.7 % of the infections proved to be XDR tuberculosis.

The drug, however, is so far meant for use only by patients infected with a particular strain of the virus — CCR5 - tropic HIV - 1 — that is resistant to many other antiretroviral therapies.

The drugs increased survival of mice infected with TB and were effective against drug - resistant strains of TB.

Mice infected with a resistant strain of tuberculosis that were treated with both SMARt - 420 and ethionamide also showed a significantly reduced bacterial load in their lungs three weeks after infection compared to controls, the authors report.

By focusing on treatments that act early, before a person is infected and feels sick, the researchers hope to give malaria — especially drug - resistant strains — less time to spread.

«Calves infected with antibiotic - resistant DT104 are 13 times more likely to die when compared to calves infected with antibiotic - sensitive versions of this strain.»

A drug - resistant strain of heartworms infected a Louisiana dog whose owner was meticulous about administering a monthly heartworm preventive, according to a report published in the Nov. 9 issue of the journal Parasites and Vectors.

Dr. Kaplan's lab confirmed that the heartworms were indeed drug resistant, making Maddie the first pet in the U.S. to be infected by this new strain.

Maddie was a patient of Dr. Cynthia Benbow, DVM, CVA, who suspected the lab had become infected by a drug - resistant strain of heartworms.