Sentences with phrase «with higher viral loads»

Studies have also shown that people with higher viral loads are more likely to transmit HIV to others.

Specifically, people with higher viral loads progress to AIDS more quickly than those with lower viral loads.

With HIV, for example, the risk of passing the disease between partners increases with higher viral load: For every 10-fold increase in viral concentration, one 2012 study suggests there is about a threefold increase in the risk of transmission per sexual act.

Patients can remain in this stage for decades with high viral load but no apparent damage to the liver.2 There are two treatment options for HBV immune tolerant patients: pegylated interferon strategy, or nucleos (t) ide analogues.3

The sooty mangabey, found in West Africa, has somehow adapted to the simian immunodeficiency virus — the nonhuman version of HIV — so that even with a high viral load, it rarely gets sick.

Telbivudine Prevents Vertical Transmission of Hepatitis B Virus From Women With High Viral Loads: A Prospective Long - Term Study, Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Volume 13 (6): 1170 - 1176.

Not exact matches

Their hypothesis draws on the observation that sooty mangabeys (monkeys) infected with the simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV)-- a pathogen thought to be the ancestor of HIV — have a high viral load but low immune activation.

Patients who had a higher Ebola viral load when diagnosed with the diseases had a higher rate of eye inflammation and new vision problems, said Dr. Mishra, who spent five months working as a World Health Organization clinical consultant for the Ebola response in Sierra Leone.

And if an Ebola patient's disease proves fatal, his viral load at death is particularly high, which boosts the risk of contracting the disease from interacting with the corpse.

Additionally, viral suppression was 11 percent higher at sites with a smaller number of patients and 13 percent higher at sites with fewer patients having an undetectable viral load at the beginning of the study.

However, even with very low viral loads, approximately 20 percent of HIV - positive patients die of heart disease, and studies have shown that treatment with cART is associated with a higher risk of heart attack.

In contrast for ranavirus, a highly virulent pathogen capable of decimating amphibian populations, populations living close to agriculture with high baseline tolerance had higher viral loads than populations far from agriculture with inducible tolerance.

The team of researchers harvested hematopoietic stem cells from three macaques prior to SHIV infection of all six animals in the study, treated the animals with anti-retroviral therapy (ART) to reduce viral load and mimic the situation in human HIV - infected patients who are treated with ART, and then exposed the three monkeys from which they had collected hematopoietic stem cells to a high dose of radiation.

Viral loads determined in samples collected post-mortem from those chickens were high, with an average of 107.27 RNA copies per mL for swabs» specimens, 108.04 RNA copies per gram for feathers, and 1010.16 RNA copies per gram for organs (Figure 2).

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