Sentences with phrase «when infected animals»

When an infected animal has a bowel movement, thousands of eggs are passed into the soil, where they can live for many years.

Most commonly this occurs when an infected animal bites a human, but there have been cases of rabies transmitted when saliva was in contact with open wounds or mucous membranes.

Rabies can be transmitted to humans when an infected animal bites / scratches a human.

In particular, they occur when an infected animal passes on bacteria, parasites, fungi or viruses to humans through scratches, saliva, feces and urine.

It is spread when an infected animal bites or scratches an uninfected animal.

When an infected animal is bitten by a mosquito, it not only ingests the blood, but also the microfilaria contained in the host's blood.

Mosquitoes serve as the vector or host of the heartworm larvae, picking up the larvae with their blood meal when an infected animal is bitten.

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When the institute tried injecting Ebola - infected animals — first guinea pigs, then monkeys — with its therapeutic agent encased in the lipid nanoparticles, the survival rate rose to 100 %, from around 20 % in previous trials.

It's hard being a parent and having to watch what your child has to go thru to develop a strong, healthy immune system... Again research has shown that the death rate of animals infected with disease is higher when their body temperature is lowered.

The Oneida County Health Department today reported that test results on a suspected case of Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE) in a horse in the north Rome / Lee Center has confirmed that the animal was infected with the disease when it was euthanized last week after... Read more

The Oneida County Health Department today reported that test results on a suspected case of Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE) in a horse in the north Rome / Lee Center has confirmed that the animal was infected with the disease when it was euthanized last week after developing neurological symptoms.

Awaited Test Results Yield Another «Positive» for EEE «Virus Suspected in Two More Horse Deaths» The Oneida County Health Department today reported that test results on a suspected case of Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE) in a horse in the north Rome / Lee Center has confirmed that the animal was infected with the disease when it was euthanized last week after developing neurological symptoms.

As a result, the Oneida County Health Department is cautioning area residents to be particularly prudent when dealing with animals, both domestic and feral in order to reduce the risk of exposure to the deadly virus transmitted through the saliva and mucous membranes of an infected animal.

Critics have argued that this policy led to infected animals being sold illegally for human consumption until 1990, when 100 per cent compensation was offered.

It is spread when susceptible animals eat tissues from infected animals that contain the prion.

And when the team injected antibody - treated cells into mouse brains, the animals showed no symptoms at all, whereas animals injected with prion - infected, but untreated, cells died after about 160 days.

All of the infected animals are sifakas — the only lemur species out of 17 at the center known to fall prey to the parasite — and most of them were under age five when they got sick.

Combing the genetic data from a transmission study in ferrets, a team led by Thomas Friedrich, a professor of pathobiological sciences at the University of Wisconsin - Madison School of Veterinary Medicine, found that during transmission, when one animal is infected by another through sneezing or coughing, the process of natural selection acts strongly on hemagglutinin, the structure the virus uses to attach to and infect host cells.

Tests in infected mice found that malaria parasites in the blood timed their daily multiplication rhythms to match when the animals were fed.

Ebola virus and its cousin Marburg virus are spread when people come into contact with the bodily fluids of a person or animal who is already infected.

When the animals excrete the parasite via faeces, they infect other cats.

When vaccinated with a DNA vaccine based on SP - 15, all animals eliminated the parasites, while a control group remained infected and developed large skin ulcers.

Mosquitoes in Austria absorb the parasite when feeding on the dog's blood and are then able to infect further animals.

Moving to an animal model, they applied the nanoparticles and hydrogen peroxide topically to the teeth of rats, which can develop tooth decay when infected with S. mutans just as humans do.

When animals were infected with both S. mutans and either the wild type or defective mutant yeast strains, the researchers observed clear differences.

When given to animals infected by a virus similar to the one that causes measles, the compound prevented illness.

«When animals are infected they stop eating and they switch to a fasting metabolic mode,» Medzhitov said.

When the researchers fed the animals, they found that those with viral infections survived, but the bacterially infected ones succumbed to the illness.

Experiments that model the bacteria in animal cells, for example, have shown that P. aeruginosa behaves and grows in certain ways only when it is in the infected lungs of a person with CF.

Using a combination of human or specially engineered mouse cells in vitro and in vivo animal models, study senior investigator Judy Lieberman, MD, PhD; study lead investigator Farokh Dotiwala, PhD, with a team lead by the Brazilian parasitologist Ricardo Gazzinelli, DSc, DVM, found that when an immune killer cell, such as a T - cell or natural killer (NK) cell, encounters a cell infected with any of three intracellular parasites (Trypanosoma cruzi, Toxoplasma gondii or Leishmania major), it releases three proteins that together kill both the parasite and the infected cell:

«We're trying to learn, when the virus infects the mosquito, if it increases the presence of the metabolite, and whether we could exhaust that resource or increase the harmfulness of the resource so that the virus can't be passed on to another animal or human,» said Chotiwan.

When they exposed the treated mice to the influenza virus, the animals recovered from the illness even better than healthy mice infected with flu that had not undergone the treatment.

West Nile virus has wreaked havoc mostly on bird populations, but humans and a variety of other animals can become infected as well when bitten by a mosquito that previously dined on an infected bird.

When these chopped - up, deactivated pathogens are injected into mammals, the animals acquire immunity, just as if they had been infected with a virulent version.

When they «challenged» these monkeys and four controls with successively higher doses of an AIDS virus for up to 34 weeks, none of the animals that received eCD4 - Ig became infected, whereas all of the untreated ones did.

When the mammal died, she determined the animal was infected with a novel tuberculosis pathogen, Mycobacterium mungi, closely related to the TB pathogen infecting humans in West Africa.

Zebras are infected when they pick up the spores while grazing; the bacteria multiply and when the animal dies, they form spores that return to the soil as the carcass decomposes.

When they killed the animals a week later, they found that the virus had broken apart dystrophin in their hearts and that the membranes of heart cells infected with Coxsackie B virus were more permeable to blue dye than uninfected cells.

When the wheat grass was consumed by hamsters, the animals were infected with the disease.

Though it's been known that big cats can be infected with the virus since the 1980s, it wasn't considered a threat to such species until 1994, when the virus swept through the Serengeti lion population, killing 1,000 animals, about 30 percent of the population.

When they subsequently infected the animals with Pseudomonas, both vaccinated groups suffered almost no lung damage.

By the eighth day, a time when the three control monkeys infected with a common human flu virus were recovering, the experimental animals were so sick that they had to be euthanized.

To see when this jump may have occurred, Monica Borucki, a virologist at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, used advanced next - generation genetic sequencing to examine the viral swarms of rabies - infected animals going all the way back to 1995.

Fleas may become infected by feeding on such animals and can then transmit the bacteria to others when they feed again.

Type I - and Type III - infected animals behaved similarly to uninfected animals when exposed to rabbit urine, including total movements made, proportion of time spent in the periphery (unpublished data), and lack of aversion (Figure 1C).

Organically fed livestock also reduces the risk of conditions such as mad cow disease, which occurs when animals consume meat and bone meal from infected animals.

Ticks often become infected when they feed on small animals, such as mice.

When a case involving an animal laboratory finds the distracted dad once again taking an extended leave of absence from his frustrated family, Douglas» luck takes a turn for the worst after he is inadvertently infected by a top - secret genetic - mutation serum that transforms the two - legged lawyer into a four - legged sheepdog.

When three different animals become infected with a dangerous pathogen, a primatologist and a geneticist team up to stop them from destroying Chicago.

SYNOPSIS: When three different animals become infected with a dangerous pathogen, a primatologist and a geneticist team -LSB-...]