Sentences with phrase «typhus in»

He had recently signed a contract with the Department of Defense to study typhus in the armed forces.

A suburban focus of endemic typhus in Los Angeles County: association with seropositive domestic cats and opossums.

«Several investigations of outbreaks of flea - born typhus in Los Angeles County have demonstrated that pet ownership is a more significant risk factor than exposure to free - roaming cats,» said Ackerman.

FROM KVUE NEWS AUSTIN: Even though Texas Health officials in Austin are investigating a dozen possible cases of typhus in...

After we finished the last pages of The Diary of Anne Frank in middle school, Mrs. Kelly informed the class that Anne and her sister died of typhus in a prison camp, thanks to Adolf Hitler.

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Probably half a billion people are alive now who would be dead except for the use of DDT to eradicate malaria, typhus, and other epidemic scourges in the poorer countries.

In previous times, people used to let their infants die, often of typhus or other bad things.

-- Chillies are used as medicine in typhus and intermittent fevers and in dropsy; they are regarded as stomachic and rubefacient.

In studies performed by Dr. John Mainarich of Bio-Research Laboratories in Redmond, WA, samples of each of the common antimicrobials or sanitizing agents were evaluated for effectiveness against Candida albicans, Staphylococcus aureus, Salmonella typhi, Streptococcus faecium and E. colIn studies performed by Dr. John Mainarich of Bio-Research Laboratories in Redmond, WA, samples of each of the common antimicrobials or sanitizing agents were evaluated for effectiveness against Candida albicans, Staphylococcus aureus, Salmonella typhi, Streptococcus faecium and E. colin Redmond, WA, samples of each of the common antimicrobials or sanitizing agents were evaluated for effectiveness against Candida albicans, Staphylococcus aureus, Salmonella typhi, Streptococcus faecium and E. coli.

A lice - borne typhus epidemic swept westward from Russia in the early 20th century, and by World War II, German troops in trenches on the Eastern Front were falling fast to the disease.

To get at the signals revealing the presence of S. Typhimurium — which are somehow absent in (or obstructed by) the presence of S. Typhi — the researchers used a second experimental set up.

Research published on August 7th in PLOS Pathogens comparing the two pathogens reveals how S. Typhi avoids recognition and elimination by patrolling immune cells called neutrophils, allowing it to disseminate throughout the patient's body.

When they generated S. Typhi lacking the Vi capsular polysaccharide and tested them in both experimental settings, they found that these behaved just like S. Typhimurium, i.e. evoked the «reach - out» response in pipette - held neutrophils and, in the Boyden chamber, elicited migration of neutrophils to the bottom compartment.

That explains why the diseases they transmit in their feces — typhus, trench fever, and relapsing fever — occur so commonly in wartime.

American Indian populations plummeted after the arrival of Europeans in the New World, largely because of the spread of smallpox, typhus, measles, and other infectious diseases.

Conducted by Prof Rose McGready and Assoc. Prof Daniel Henry Paris from the Shoklo Malaria Research Unit (SMRU) in Mae Sot, Thailand, and the Mahidol Oxford Research Unit (MORU) in Bangkok, affiliated to Oxford University, UK, in collaboration with Prof John Antony Jude Prakash of the Dept. of Clinical Microbiology, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India, the study, «Pregnancy outcome in relation to treatment of Murine typhus and Scrub typhus infection: a fever cohort and a case series analysis,» will be published in the November 20th, 2014 issue of PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases.

Caused by bacteria and often acquired by mite, flea or tick bites, tropical rickettsial illnesses — mainly scrub typhus and murine typhus — are a very common cause of undifferentiated fever in parts of South - East Asia.

A recent study from the Thai - Myanmar border highlights the severe and previously under - reported adverse impact of readily treatable tropical rickettsial illnesses, notably scrub typhus and murine typhus, on pregnancy outcomes, finding that more than one third of affected pregnancies resulted either in stillbirth or premature and / or low birth weight babies.

In Western societies antibiotics had controlled menaces like tuberculosis and typhus, and the mechanisms of bacteria and viruses were well understood.

Murine typhus (endemic typhus) fever, and in some cases tapeworms, Hymenolepis, can also be transmitted by fleas.

Researchers proved its utility by successfully mapping the multi-drug resistance genes in a strain called Salmonella Typhi haplotype H58 — which has recently emerged globally.

30.03.15 In the rest of the world, Salmonella Typhi has only one type of flagellin, the whip - like structure that helps it to move.

Recently, a Salmonella Typhi isolate producing CTX - M - 15 extended spectrum β - lactamase (ESBL) and with decreased ciprofloxacin susceptibility was isolated in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Protein stability assays demonstrated that in S Typhi the half - life of HilD, the dominant regulator of SPI - 1, is three times longer in the presence of bile; this increase in stability was independent of the acetyltransferase Pat.

Alterations in response profiles were related to vaccine - induced immune responses and subsequent outcome after wild - type Salmonella Typhi challenge.

Taken together, our results suggest that changes within the chaperone - binding domain of SptP in S Typhi hinder binding to its chaperone, resulting in instability, preventing translocation, and therefore restricting the intracellular activity of this effector.

RNA - Seq of S Typhi Ty2 and a clinical S Typhi isolate belonging to the globally dominant H58 lineage (129 - 0238), as well as S Typhimurium 14028, revealed that 249, 389 and 453 genes respectively were differentially expressed in the presence of 3 % bile compared to control cultures lacking bile.

Importance: Studies investigating Salmonella pathogenesis typically rely on Salmonella Typhimurium, even though Salmonella Typhi causes the more severe disease in humans.

Subsequent comparison of ΔsptP S Typhi and S. Typhimurium strains demonstrated that, unlike SptP in S. Typhimurium, SptP in S Typhi was not involved in invasion or cytoskeletal recovery postinfection.

In - vitro studies showcase Olive Leaf Extract's potency against pathogens like e. coli, salmonella typhi, and staphylococcus aureus.

When a large corporation's water facilities in Ecuador unleash a typhus outbreak, the local militia (who is in cahoots with said corporation) guns down the village to cover up the incident.

In fact, until the mid-19th century doctors couldn't distinguish it from typhus and malaria.

For this reason, public health officials in Texas, where flea - borne typhus is endemic, have focused their efforts on controlling fleas rather than their hosts.

While these pests might be puny, their effects can be massive in their transmission of diseases from typhus to Bartonella or tapeworm and more.

Typhus, Fleas, and Cats Somehow I missed press releases from both Stray Cat Alliance and Alley Cat Allies, both issued yesterday in response to the Santa Ana typhus scare.

A 2005 investigation of an outbreak of six cases of flea - borne typhus on one block in Pasadena found that three out of four households representing four out of six cases had indoor / outdoor cats, and reported the presence of opossums.

In Texas, where outbreaks of flea - born typhus also occur, officials have found that fleas on pet dogs rather than on cats are more likely to harbor the infection.

If you missed the Orange County Vector Control District's press release, announcing last year's dramatic decrease in flea - borne typhus cases, you're not alone.

It is, however, more likely that you would be exposed to typhus from a cat — in a study in Los Angeles, 90 % of the outdoor cats showed evidence of exposure as opposed to only 42 % of trapped adult opossums.

«In an effort to combat a potential typhus outbreak,» reports today's Los Angeles Times, «city officials zeroed in on two schools in [a] densely packed [Santa Ana] neighborhood and set a dozen traps to catch feral cats and other animals that might carry disease - bearing fleas.&raquIn an effort to combat a potential typhus outbreak,» reports today's Los Angeles Times, «city officials zeroed in on two schools in [a] densely packed [Santa Ana] neighborhood and set a dozen traps to catch feral cats and other animals that might carry disease - bearing fleas.&raquin on two schools in [a] densely packed [Santa Ana] neighborhood and set a dozen traps to catch feral cats and other animals that might carry disease - bearing fleas.&raquin [a] densely packed [Santa Ana] neighborhood and set a dozen traps to catch feral cats and other animals that might carry disease - bearing fleas.»

«The hope is that by trapping and testing animals caught at Willard Intermediate School and El Sol Science and Arts Academy, officials will be able to determine if a recent case of typhus — the first in Santa Ana this year — originated in the community.

DDT, a chemical pesticide synthesized by Müller in the late 1930s, was initially used against houseflies, beetles, various farm pests, and typhus - carrying lice on the bodies of World War II soldiers and civilians.

Recent assessments conducted on the impacts of climate change on health in Australia, highlight the potential for the onset of and increases in vector - borne, water - borne and food - borne diseases such as: malaria, dengue fever, Murray Valley encephalitis, Japanese encephalitis, melioidosis, leptospirosis and scrub typhus.