Sentences with phrase «tuberculosis disease»

Chiacchio T, Petruccioli E, Vanini V, Butera O, Cuzzi G, Petrone L, Matteucci G, Lauria FN, Franken KL, Girardi E, Ottenhoff TH, Goletti D. Higher frequency of T - cell response to M. tuberculosis latency antigen Rv2628 at the site of active tuberculosis disease than in peripheral blood.

Research Focus: My research projects are focused on defining the T cell responses against Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the causative agent of tuberculosis disease.

Prof. Caccamo's research is focused on the role of human T cell subsets in physiology and in pathology, on the role of human T lymphocytes during M. tuberculosis infection and on the identification, optimization and evaluation of correlates of protection and tuberculosis disease.

Breastfeeding is contraindicated in infants with classic galactosemia (galactose 1 - phosphate uridyltransferase deficiency) 103; mothers who have active untreated tuberculosis disease or are human T - cell lymphotropic virus type I — or II — positive104, 105; mothers who are receiving diagnostic or therapeutic radioactive isotopes or have had exposure to radioactive materials (for as long as there is radioactivity in the milk) 106 — 108; mothers who are receiving antimetabolites or chemotherapeutic agents or a small number of other medications until they clear the milk109, 110; mothers who are using drugs of abuse («street drugs»); and mothers who have herpes simplex lesions on a breast (infant may feed from other breast if clear of lesions).

Not exact matches

What it does: This bacteria is most notorious for causing severe illnesses such as tuberculosis, leprosy, and Hansen's disease, though most species of mycobacteria in nature are benign in humans, unless in cases of those who have weakened immune systems.

Particularly striking is the mortality trend line for tuberculosis, which falls precipitously from 1838 onward — decades before the bacterium responsible for the disease was identified (1882), and long before the advent of the first effective antibiotic therapy, streptomycin.

Deaths from pollution - linked diseases, like heart disease and cancer, were three times higher than deaths from AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria combined, the researchers found.

That is to say, those who live in places where infectious diseases — including malaria, tuberculosis and HIV — still kill an astounding 15 million people a year.

Disease Smallpox Measles Malaria Tuberculosis AIDS pandemic Seasonal influenza Cyclones (including hurricanes) 1970 Bhola cyclone 1839 Indian cyclone 1737 Calcutta cyclone Super Typhoon Nina — contributed to Banqiao Dam failure Great Backerganj Cyclone of 1876 Cyclone Nargis 1991 Bangladesh cyclone 1882 Bombay cyclone 1922 Swatow Typhoon 1864 Calcutta Cyclone Earthquakes 1556 Shaanxi earthquake 1976 Tangshan earthquake 526 Antioch earthquake 1920 Haiyuan earthquake 2004 Indonesian earthquake 1138 Aleppo earthquake 2010 Haiti earthquake 856 Damghan earthquake 893 Ardabil earthquake 1923 Great Kanto earthquake 1908 Messina earthquake 1948 Ashgabat earthquake 1290 Chihli earthquake 1755 Lisbon earthquake 1667 Shamakhi earthquake 2005 Kashmir earthquake 1727 Tabriz earthquake 1970 Ancash earthquake 1932 Changma earthquake 2008 Sichuan earthquake 1268 Cilicia earthquake 1693 Sicily earthquake 1935 Balochistan earthquake 1783 Calabrian earthquakes 1990 Manjil - Rudbar earthquake 1999 İzmit earthquake 1498 Meiō Nankaidō earthquake 1797 Riobamba earthquake 1927 Gulang earthquake 1939 Erzincan earthquake 1202 Syria earthquake 1939 Chillán earthquake 1949 Khait earthquake 2003 Bam earthquake 1988 Spitak earthquake 1293 Kamakura earthquake 1976 Guatemala earthquake 1896 Meiji - Sanriku earthquake 1812 Caracas earthquake 1905 Kangra earthquake 2001 Gujarat earthquake 1970 Tonghai earthquake 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami 1960 Agadir earthquake 1978 Tabas earthquake 1962 Bou'in - Zahra earthquake 1907 Qaratog earthquake 1968 Dasht - e Bayaz and Ferdows earthquake 1934 Bihar earthquake 1985 Mexico City earthquake 1509 Istanbul earthquake 1703 Apennine earthquakes 1703 Genroku earthquake 1854 Ansei - Nankai earthquake 1944 San Juan earthquake

And then I gave Adam syphillis, cholera, typhus, leprosy, rabies, malaria, and tuberculosis all simultaneously, because I'm a real ass... and I needed a human vector for some of these historic diseases.

For the past two decades, we have had a front - row seat in the bipartisan movement to end worldwide preventable, treatable diseases like AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria, and to make poverty history.

Sayers adds, «Scientists also did a study of Native American plains Indians and found that while some died of tuberculosis and other infectious diseases, they never found any evidence of cancer or heart or stroke problems.

If hunger (responsible for more deaths every year than war or disease and the loss of more lives than AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined) is not attributable solely to inadequate production of food, but rather insufficient availability of food, why isn't more being done to reduce the shameful levels of food loss occurring in developing countries?

That is why locals in Africa have used this superfruit's pulp powder for centuries to treat high fever symptoms induced by diseases such as malaria or tuberculosis.

We believe that our target group can help Indian organizations such as the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease and the Public Health Foundation of India to work towards plain packaging.

In effect, it often introduced infection, such as tuberculosis and venereal diseases, with very serious and tragic consequence, as reported throughout history.

These include the infant with galactosemia, 53,54 the infant whose mother uses illegal drugs, 55 the infant whose mother has untreated active tuberculosis, and the infant in the United States whose mother has been infected with the human immunodeficiency virus.56, 57 In countries with populations at increased risk for other infectious diseases and nutritional deficiencies resulting in infant death, the mortality risks associated with not breastfeeding may outweigh the possible risks of acquiring human immunodeficiency virus infection.58 Although most prescribed and over-the-counter medications are safe for the breastfed infant, there are a few medications that mothers may need to take that may make it necessary to interrupt breastfeeding temporarily.

Moreover, your child will be particularly prone to developing respiratory diseases, ear infections, tuberculosis, cancer, food allergies, asthma, short stature and attention disorders.

The Russian government has recently implemented more rigorous health requirements for adopting parents — a history of psychiatric disorders, drug and alcohol addictions, tuberculosis, and infectious diseases, for example, may disqualify potential parents.

Mothers» contraindications: HIV positive, substance abuse, chemotherapy, radioactive isotope treatments until the elimination of the isotope from the mother's body, active tuberculosis, active chickenpox, active Herpes lesions, Chagas disease.

Nevertheless, they were soon claiming that circumcision cured epilepsy, convulsions, paralysis, elephantiasis, tuberculosis, eczema, bed - wetting, hip - joint disease, fecal incontinence, rectal prolapse, wet dreams, hernia, headaches, nervousness, hysteria, poor eyesight, idiocy, mental retardation, and insanity.4 In fact, no procedure in the history of medicine has been claimed to cure and prevent more diseases than circumcision.

Your doctor may check your teen's risk for anemia, high cholesterol, tuberculosis, and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and order tests, if needed.

The agenda must address universal health - care coverage, access and affordability; end preventable maternal, new - born and child deaths and malnutrition ensure the protection, promotion and support of exclusive breastfeeding for six months and continued breastfeeding with adequate complementary feeding for 2 years and beyond ensure the availability of essential medicines; realize women's reproductive health and rights; ensure immunization coverage; eradicate malaria and realize the vision of a future free of AIDS and tuberculosis; reduce the burden of non-communicable diseases, including mental illness, nervous system injuries and road accidents; and promote healthy behaviours, including those related to breastfeeding, water, sanitation and hygiene.

Some of those diseases were tuberculosis, diptheria and typhoid fever.

One of the infectious agents the research team studied was the organism that causes tuberculosis (TB)-- a disease that is a huge problem in many countries of the world and getting worse because of the development of antibiotic - resistant strains.

Leigh Anne O'Connor, leader of La Leche League International — an organization that provides support to breast - feeding mothers — warned parents that the milk their children gets from another woman should be screened for diseases, such as tuberculosis, syphilis, HIV and hepatitis - associated anitigens.

Air pollution can lead to a variety of respiratory diseases, tuberculosis, bronchitis, heart and chest diseases, stomach disorders, and cancers.

The International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung disease in some few days passed organised its 20th Conference of the Union Africa Region at the Accra International Conference Centre, Accra Ghana with the focus on Accelerating Implementation Through Partnership to END, TB / HIV Tobacco and other related NCD's.

Despite progress made globally in the fight against Tuberculosis, over 200 children have been confirmed to have the disease in Sara town, Gwaram Local Government Area of Jigawa, official says.

The hospital opened in 1913 to treat tuberculosis patients and was the site of the first clinical trials for the hydrazides treatment that eventually led to the cure of the disease, according to the EDC.

1) African trypanosomiasis, Chagas disease, Dengue, Leishmaniasis, Leprosy, Lymphatic filariasis, Malaria, Onchocerciasis, Schistosomiasis, and Tuberculosis.

These include the abolition of unnecessary neonatal deaths and ending AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and neglected tropical diseases.

The serendipitous pursuit of a rapid outbreak of virulent tuberculosis shows how the disease can be stopped in its tracks, according to a report in tomorrow's New England Journal of Medicine.

Seal Tuberculosis (Peru 1,000 years ago) Tuberculosis in the Americas is thought to have arrived with European colonists, although earlier indigenous skeletons show signs of the disease.

Public health: Not just a disease of the rich (p 66) To tackle the growing threat from cancer in developing countries, the disease needs to be given the same prominence that has been accorded to HIV, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria in recent years, says Paul Farmer in an interview published in this month's Scientific American.

The death rate from tuberculosis, malaria, and other non-HIV infectious diseases will also decline.

Since its inception in 2000, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has contributed nearly $ 8.5 billion to global health, with HIV and tuberculosis (TB) receiving $ 2.29 billion and other infectious diseases about $ 1.96 billion.

Despite having been vaccinated against the disease in 1989, which was 3 years before Sousa and her colleagues examined them, 58 % of the Indians had a weakened or nonexistent immune reaction in skin tests that measure cell response to the tuberculosis bacterium.

In collaboration with many researchers (graduate students, postdocs, and faculty elsewhere), we have examined the role of cross-immunity on the evolution and dynamics of influenza; the impact of behavioral changes, long periods of infectiousness, variable infectivity, co-infections, prostitution, social networks, and vaccine efficacy on HIV dynamics; the role of exogenous re-infection, variable progression rates, vaccination, public transportation, close and casual contacts on tuberculosis dynamics and control; the impact of life - history vector dynamics on dengue epidemics; and on the identification of time - response scales for epidemics of foot and mouth disease.

That includes managing an isolation unit for diseases such as tuberculosis for many years with support from and collaboration with the city health department How are nurses trained to deal with a potential Ebola case?

The list of diseases being studied includes malaria, influenza, shigella, dengue, norovirus, tuberculosis, rhinovirus, Escherichia coli, typhoid, giardia, and campylobacter.

Wild boar and red deer are key hosts of bovine tuberculosis — a chronic, infectious disease mainly caused by Mycobacterium bovis — in southern Europe, with the incidence of TB in these animals particularly high in certain areas of Spain.

TB disease is caused by the bacteria Mycobacterium tuberculosis, is spread through the air, and can lead to violent cough attacks involving spitting up blood.

The threat of antibiotic resistance is nothing to scoff at: The World Health Organization predicts (pdf) that some diseases, including malaria, tuberculosis, and pneumonia, could have «no effective therapies within the next 10 years.»

Worse still, the results suggest it would be a mistake to use adenovirus - based vaccines against other diseases, such as malaria or tuberculosis, in areas where HIV is common.

Ashley Leiman, of the Orang Utan Foundation charity, told a meeting at London Zoo last week that many of the apes carry human diseases such as hepatitis B and tuberculosis.

The Overseas Development Agency now has the control of communicable diseases as one of its priorities for health and population assistance, with particular attention being given to tuberculosis.

The pilgrims probably also spread many diseases including smallpox, measles, tuberculosis (TB), and typhus.

Now, this thinning of the adrenal gland cortex was a very unusual abnormality for us, that has not been previously reported in dolphins in the literature... now, aside from chemical exposure, conditions that can cause the adrenal gland to become thin include things like cancer, autoimmune disease, fungal infections and tuberculosis.

Tuberculosis reached epidemic proportions, and infant mortality rates quadrupled, with acute respiratory diseases accounting for 50 percent of the deaths.