Not exact matches
Latent viruses
in the patient's
body may reemerge during this time and when standard viral treatments fail, the
infections can become life -
threatening.
They also want to develop a version that could counteract the dangerous inflammatory cascade that occurs
in bacterial sepsis, a life -
threatening condition that arises when the
body is overwhelmed with an
infection.
A provocative study links prolonged episodes of sepsis — a life -
threatening infection and leading cause of death
in hospitals — to the reactivation of otherwise dormant viruses
in the
body.
Methicillin - resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteria are resistant to multiple antibiotics and commonly cause skin
infections that can lead to more serious or life -
threatening infection in other parts of the
body.
In the intestine, the virus causes ulceration leading to diarrhea and life -
threatening dehydration as well as bacterial
infection as the barrier between the
body and intestinal bacteria is lost.
Feline Distemper is a highly contagious and life -
threatening viral disease
in the cat population which can lead to an anemic condition, leaving the
body open to
infections from other illnesses.