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Infection in sentence

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They want us to tear open more wounds in our societies so that they can use them to spread their infection more widely.
The woman had a knee injury, required multiple surgeries, and over the course of these, developed a chronic bacterial infection in her leg.
Unfortunately for her, the bacteria causing the infection also did not respond to any antibiotic that was available.
So at this point, typically, the only option left is to amputate the leg to stop the infection from spreading further.
Within three weeks of applying the phages, the chronic infection had healed up, where before, no antibiotic was working.
I was fascinated by this weird conception: viruses curing an infection.
He was interested in a disease called bacillary dysentery, which is a bacterial infection that causes severe diarrhea, and back then, was actually killing a lot of people, because after all, no cure for bacterial infections had been invented.
You had a patient with a suspected bacterial infection, you gave him the antibiotic, and without really needing to know anything else about the bacteria causing the disease, many of the patients recovered.
We are only able to do complex medical interventions and medical surgeries today because we have antibiotics, and we don't risk the patient dying the very next day from the bacterial infection that he might contract during the operation.
Those are bacteria that have become resistant to many, if not all, of the antibiotics that we have developed to treat this infection.
Today, we are able to reliably identify a bacterial pathogen that's causing an infection in many settings.
My mind was flooded with reflections of my own infection that I had to struggle with for a year past childbirth despite having access to the best medical care, and memories of my conversation with my father, who had lost his mom to childbirth, on how he thought his life would be so different if she would have been just next to him growing up.
The thread provided was a highway to bacterial infection through the baby's umbilical cord, and the blade used was the kind that men used for shaving, and they did not want it anywhere close to them.
During the first stage of HIV infection, the virus replicates within helper T cells, destroying many of them in the process.
This stage of HIV infection is known as AIDS.
Well, preventing infection is either about protecting people or about eliminating the mosquitoes.
Being a biology student, I had some prior exposure to disease, and being a fairly informed gay man, I had read a bit on HIV, so to me, it clicked that this was seroconversion, or as it's sometimes called, acute HIV infection.
We'd talk about our kids growing up and the slowing pace of our parents, and our dad who's suffering from leukemia, memory loss and infection.
When a virus invades a bacterium, Cas proteins cut out a segment of the viral DNA to stitch into the bacterium’s CRISPR region, capturing a chemical snapshot of the infection.
STI stands for sexually transmitted infection.
A 2015 national survey of trans people found that eight percent of us had had a urinary tract infection in the past year as a result of avoiding restrooms.
FDG is a common one because the rate at which cells consume glucose can signal the presence of cancer; the location of an infection; or the slowing brain function of dementia.
He's an infection waiting to happen, and he's losing his temperature by the minute.
We think of bacteria as sources of infection, but bacteria themselves are also prone to being infected, in particular, by viruses.
So about three billion years ago, bacteria evolved a defense mechanism to fight viral infection.
So when a bacterium encounters a virus for the first time, it can store a small snippet of that virus's DNA for use as a program to direct the CRISPR scissors to cut that viral DNA sequence during a future infection.
Decades later, it turned out that the source of their blindness was most likely some sort of bacterial infection.
So for example, if people have some level of immunity to the disease, then they can develop an infection and become infectious and still pass it on, but not actually develop any symptoms, and that can be a big problem because how do you find those people - it's like looking for a needle in a haystack.
So one of the first things that we wanted to do in our study was to find out whether an infection with malaria actually makes you more attractive to mosquitoes or not.
And what we found was that highly attractive trait that was there disappeared after they had cleared the infection, so it wasn't just that the people were more attractive, it was that the parasite was manipulating its host in some way to make it more attractive to mosquitoes, standing out like a beacon to attract more mosquitoes so that it could continue its life cycle.
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