Sentences with phrase «with endemic disease»

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The disease exists in every industry, but Rory says it's epidemic and endemic in restaurants — owners terminally inflicted with the belief that they must be the one making the sauce, greeting the guests at the door, doing the inventory.

Even among people in close contact with lepers, only a fraction seems to contract the disease, even in endemic areas.

It's quite likely that ticks infected with Lyme disease spirochetes are present in other parks in Lyme disease endemic areas, too.»

«I myself grew up in a poor family in Northeast Thailand where the disease is endemic,» he says, «And when I started working with communities in my province, I found that the liver fluke problems still persisted with nearly three - quarters prevalence in certain villages, despite over 30 years of Thai government campaigns against the parasite.»

There are experts in all countries with endemic plague who monitor the disease, with the help of the World Health Organization and sometimes the CDC.

Although we have been able to push back the disease with antibiotics, leprosy remains endemic in many developing countries today.

All the patients with transthyretin amyloidosis had early - stage familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy, 35 with the majority enrolled in Portugal and Sweden, where the disease is endemic.6 The most common mutation in participants was V30M.6 - 8 Healthy volunteers had no known TTR mutation.

This is difficult for any disease but is particularly challenging for diseases that are endemic in low - and middle - income countries with limited health systems and research infrastructure.

(NaturalHealth365) Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, or NAFLD, is now endemic in the United States, with the National Institutes of Health reporting that over 90 million Americans are currently affected.

The study, found at idexx.com/tickrisk, showed two key findings: 1) dogs with Ehrlichia antibodies in E. canis - endemic areas have a 300 percent increased risk of kidney disease; and 2) dogs with B. burgdorferi (the causative agent of Lyme disease) antibodies in Lyme - endemic areas have a 43 percent increased risk of kidney disease.

Heartworm disease is endemic in Florida, and experts in the field consider having an open window or door (with a screen) as being exposed.

Diagnosis of canine dirofilariosis in animals which originate from a low - endemic region is difficult for 3 main reasons: 1) possible absence of circulating microfilariae (occult disease), 2) high frequency of a low number of adults, which in turn produces false negative results, using either ELISA or latex agglutination test, 3) possible false sero - positive results, due to cross-reaction with adult antigens of Dirofilaria (Nochtiella) repens (Schrey, 1996), the agent of subcutaneous dirofilariasis causing chronic pruritic dermatitis in dogs (Tarello, 1999).

An important and probably best known example of a zoonotic viral disease from companion animals is rabies, which should be considered in the differential diagnosis of any patient presented with encephalitis in endemic areas.

Heartworm disease is diagnosed in all 50 United States, with endemic areas along the Atlantic and Gulf coast and along the Mississippi river.

The relocation of dogs, as with humanitarian efforts following natural disasters, can introduce heartworm disease to non endemic parts of the country.

Small populations of island endemic taxa are often at risk of extirpation or extinction due to their reduced genetic diversity and increased susceptibility to genetic drift, disease, and climate change, especially in conjunction with over-exploitation, habitat loss, and predation or competition from invasive species [4 — 7].

Teschke, K., N. Bellack, H. Shen, J. Atwater, R. Chu, M. Koehoorn, Y. C. MacNab, H. Schreier, and J. L. Isaac - Renton, 2010: Water and sewage systems, socio - demographics, and duration of residence associated with endemic intestinal infectious diseases: A cohort study.

Water and sewage systems, socio - demographics, and duration of residence associated with endemic intestinal infectious diseases: A cohort study

With regard to human health, endemic can refer to a disease or agent present or usually prevalent in a population or geographical area at all times.