(n.) A venereal sore or ulcer; specifically, the initial lesion of true syphilis, whether forming a distinct ulcer or not; -- called also hard chancre, indurated chancre, and Hunterian chancre.
Example Sentences:
(1) Venereal Disease Research Laboratories (VDRL) and Treponema pallidum hemagglutination (TPHA) tests became positive during hospitalization, and dark-field examination was positive for Treponemas, thus allowing the diagnosis of chancre of the rectum.
(2) Provided goats were immunized, it was found that the chancre reaction could be used to distinguish different populations of T. congolense.
(3) Local skin reactions (chancres) developed at the sites of inoculation with Trypanosoma evansi in rabbits and calves.
(4) Following the tsetse bite, the trypanosomes in the skin multiplied, reaching maximum numbers when the skin reaction (chancre) of the host attained its maximum size.
(5) In a preliminary study, two of four rabbits infected with human T-cell leukemia virus type I (HTLV-I) demonstrated prolonged primary chancres following superinfection with Treponema pallidum, the causative agent of syphilis.
(6) A chancre sore was infrequent in children; condylomata lata was the most frequent cutaneous lesion (80.9%).
(7) Clinically the patients with abnormal liquor developed multiple chancres, erosive papules, leukoderma, alopecia, neutrophilia; these patients had suffered from various diseases in the past.
(8) Certain types such as "chancre mou volant," however, could not be found in the present material.
(9) Expression of nine metacyclic variable antigen types (M-VATs) of Trypanosoma congolense in chancres from infected rabbits was determined using monoclonal antibodies raised against metacyclic forms of trypanosomes.
(10) After cutaneous inoculation of viable Treponema pallidum subsp pallidum into the skin of chancre-immune or previously uninfected rabbits, organisms move from perivascular connective tissue to localize extracellularly in hair follicles, erector pili muscles, and cutaneous nerves.
(11) The first symptom was a lesion, or chancre, in the genital region.
(12) A description is given of the structure of the basic cellular elements found in the chancres, particularly the plasma cells since it is in them that the main immunological processes take place.The morphology of the treponemes varies in the course of the pathological process as well as with the type of cell harbouring them.
(13) In calves, similar changes were observed although there were fewer trypanosomes present in the chancre and the cellular involvement was less extensive than that seen in the rabbit.
(14) In addition, HIV-infected rabbits demonstrate prolonged cutaneous lesions (chancres) after intracutaneous challenge with T. pallidum, the causative agent of syphilis.
(15) Sensitization and repetitive elicitation with P. acnes did not change the time of appearance or progression of syphilitic chancres after i.v or i.d.
(16) A clinical, bacteriological and serological pictures of 45 patients with chancriform pyoderma are presented, A single ulcer (92.8%), localized on genitals (91.1%) in adult males (93.3%), imitating or very similar to syphilitic primary chancre in our material was observed.
(17) A brief introduction on trypanosomiasis in ruminants and an explanation of the term chancre are followed by a discussion of a number of findings on the early pathogenesis of the disease.
(18) Local skin reactions (chancres) developed in goats at the sites of deposition, by tsetse flies, of metacyclics of Trypanosoma congolense.
(19) A case of primary tuberculous chancre of the vulva is reported.
(20) In long-standing chancres cyst-like formations with multi-layered membranes have been found.
Contagious
Definition:
(a.) Communicable by contact, by a virus, or by a bodily exhalation; catching; as, a contagious disease.
(a.) Conveying or generating disease; pestilential; poisonous; as, contagious air.
(a.) Spreading or communicable from one to another; exciting similar emotions or conduct in others.
Example Sentences:
(1) No acute cases of clinical or anicteric hepatitis were in observed in 75% of 161 patients who had been exposed to hepatitis A by an oral surgeon during the contagious period.
(2) The SC strains comprise those from contagious bovine pleuropneumonia (CBPP) and some from goats.
(3) This article reviews certain legislative points of view which should help every dentist in their decision as to whether to treat these so-called "infectious" or "contagious" patients.
(4) That’s in the normal range, but should it go to 37.5 you may be whisked off to a holding centre as a suspect Ebola case, where – even if your fever is flu or more likely here, malaria – you will be detained with people who really do have this dangerously contagious virus.
(5) The accumulated information on low rates of occupational transmission of HIV makes unwarranted the treatment of patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) or HIV infection as if they were highly contagious in the health care setting.
(6) In this context, the present article makes an analysis of the main ethical and legal problems posed by HIV infection, in the framework of Portuguese law, with special focus on: a) Conflict between the necessary protection of public health by the State and the protection of fundamental rights and freedoms of the citizens; b) Inadequacy of the existent laws to fight contagious diseases to HIV infection; c) Discrimination; d) Testing and compulsory hospitalization versus informed consent; e) Confidentiality; f) Voluntary contagion.
(7) The ELISA and an immunoblotting technique were used to study F38-type mycoplasmas - an important cause of contagious caprine pleuropneumonia - and a number of related mycoplasma species, subspecies, types or serogroups.
(8) Measles can spread when it reaches a community in the US where groups of people are unvaccinated.” The highly contagious viral respiratory disease is often accompanied by a blotchy rash, fever, runny nose, cough, body aches, watery eyes or pink eye and tiny white spots in the mouth.
(9) This paper extends a mathematical model developed by the authors for describing the stochastic process underlying the etiology of non-contagious progressive diseases.
(10) Four pony mares were readily infected with the organism of contagious equine metritis by intracervical inoculation and one by coitus with an infected stallion.
(11) The kinetics of inactivation of two viruses (the Talfan and the Canine Contagious Hepatitis viruses) which were obtained after contact with 10 disinfectants commonly used in agriculture and the food industry are compared.
(12) Reproduction of contagious equine metritis 1977 in Pony mares was achieved with cultures of an unclassified Gram-negative coccobacillus.
(13) The nurses’ statement said they had to “interact with Mr. Duncan with whatever protective equipment was available”, even as he produced “a lot of contagious fluids”.
(14) This article reports on the phenomenon of contagious hysteria in a village in West Bengal.
(15) Those who believed in the contagiousness of the disease hoped to be able to control it with preventive and hygienic measures resulting from their findings on the bacteriology of the epidemic.
(16) After almost 24 hours of being told I stank and generally being treated like a contagious freak, I was so grateful for these ministrations that I went to hug them.
(17) The abortive form is revealed by contagious abortions whose frequency depends principally on the composition of the animal population of the farm; during its evolution, numerous very high positive serological reactions are observed.
(18) We will know more in the coming days.” She said inquiries will seek to establish if the outbreak is linked to cases of a highly contagious strain in chickens in the Netherlands and Germany.
(19) Finally, it does not seem logical, for airlines learn about only a small fraction of the contagious persons who travel, and public health is much more greatly endangered by unknown contagious persons.
(20) Literature concerning Adamantiadès-Behçet disease is silent with regard to its contagiousness.