(n.) An animal, not truly parasitic, which lives in, with, or on, another, partaking usually of the same food. Both species may be benefited by the association.
(a.) Having the character of a commensal.
Example Sentences:
(1) An alternative is to test for antibody to a widespread commensal organism to which the patient must have been repeatedly exposed.
(2) In the latter, only the commensal rodents constitute a major problem, whereas in rural tropical areas, native semidomestic species also serve as disease reservoirs and sources of infection to man.
(3) Of 1343 stool specimens 156 (11.6%) were positive for intestinal parasites (5.4% pathogenic and 6.3% commensals).
(4) These results indicate that B. ureolyticus is a commensal in the lower genital tract.
(5) The results of this study suggest that in the majority of patients with AIDS in this group from Leicester, original commensal strains were replaced, replacement occurred early in the manifestation of AIDS, and replacement occurred only once.
(6) If patients are in addition immunocompromised, otherwise commensal bacteria may cause life threatening infections.
(7) It is suggested that plants may serve as an effective environmental reservoir for V. cholerae either through a non-specific association or by interaction with V. cholerae in commensal relationship.
(8) We report a case of septic arthritis of the knee due to Neisseria mucosa a widespread commensal of the oropharynx following an infiltration of the joint.
(9) Morphologically very similar SB occur as commensals in the stomachs of various animals, in particular dogs and cats.
(10) The bacteria isolated by transtracheal aspiration were predominately pure culture, thereby lowering the possibility of contamination from commensal flora.
(11) The proportion of fimbriate strains amongst Escherichia coli freshly isolated from infected urines did not differ significantly from the proportion amongst commensal Esch.
(12) Neisseria mucosa, an upper respiratory tract commensal, is a rare cause of infective endocarditis.
(13) Approximately 75% of the nasopharyngeal pathogens H. influenzae, B. catarrhalis and Streptococcus pneumoniae, as well as the commensal M. nonliquefaciens, were eliminated and often replaced by other strains of either species over a period of one month.
(14) Mouse t haplotypes are variant forms of chromosome 17 that exist at high frequencies in worldwide populations of two species of commensal mice.
(15) We underline the originality of the Robertsonian commensal population which displays a particular strategy consisting of a mix of outdoor and commensal traits.
(16) Haemophilus segnis is a rarely recognised commensal in the oropharynx.
(17) The prevalence of antibodies to Toxoplasma gondii was determined in three species of domestic and commensal mammals, from Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
(18) The organisms found were the common skin commensals, Staphylococcus epidermidis biotype I, anaerobic Gram positive cocci of the Gaffya type and Corynebacterium acnes Type I.
(19) The existence of commensal or antagonistic relationships between microorganisms in the root canals of teeth with apical periodontitis was investigated.
(20) This isolated strain in case 1 was M-type 28, which is the M-type most often isolated from vaginal swabs (as commensal) and from blood from patients with puerperal sepsis.
Unaffected
Definition:
(a.) Not affected or moved; destitute of affection or emotion; uninfluenced.
(1) During recovery glucose uptake was reduced and citrate release was unaffected.
(2) Cellular radial expansion was apparently unaffected by exposure to electric fields.
(3) The half-life was very variable between subjects [2-8 hours], but less variable within subjects and it was unaffected by the formulation.
(4) Serum pepsinogen 1, serum gastrin, ABO blood groups, secretor status of ABH blood group substances and behavioral factors were studied in 15 patients with duodenal ulcer and 61 their relatives affected and unaffected to duodenal ulcer.
(5) Other DNase I hypersensitive sites located adjacent to the S14 cap site at -65 to -265 base pairs (Hss-1) or upstream at -1.3 kb (Hss-2), -2.1 kb (Hss-3'), -5.3 kb (Hss-4), and -6.2 kb (Hss-5) remained unaffected by changes in S14 gene transcription.
(6) These tumors may nonetheless be etiologically related as indicated by the pattern of laboratory abnormalities, especially immunologic, in affected as well as unaffected members.
(7) Peptidoglycan synthesis is unaffected by the mutations affecting the core glycosyltransferases.
(8) Recovery after EEDQ administration showed that both receptor production rate and degradation rate constants of anterior pituitary D2 and striatal D1 receptors were slowed after chronic estradiol treatment, whereas recovery rates for striatal D2 dopamine receptors were unaffected.
(9) The repriming of K-contractures was more affected by changes in [Ca]0 in normal soleus than in normal extensor digitorum longus and this difference was unaffected by dystrophy.
(10) Photolysis of the photosystem I particles induces a progressive depletion of phylloquinone, however, photochemistry as assayed at room temperature by the photooxidation of P-700 is unaffected.
(11) Adenylate cyclase activation by GTP non-hydrolyzable analogues was greatly decreased in immune, as compared to preimmune, antibody-treated membranes, whereas the enzyme basal activity was unaffected by both types of antibodies.
(12) F-wave latency was consistently increased in the affected hands of the patients, compared with results from the unaffected and control hands.
(13) Results of these studies indicated that the basic protein band of freshly obtained normal human white matter was unaffected by incubation at 23 degrees C for as long as 18 hours.
(14) The translocation of nascent PtdSer to the mitochondria was unaffected by 45-fold dilution of the standard reaction thus indicating that the translocation intermediate was unlikely to be a freely diffusible complex.
(15) The rise of the membrane resistance during cooling was unaffected.
(16) Pilot studies had shown that the activity of rT3 5'MDH is markedly (greater than or equal to 85%) inhibited in the presence of 2 M NaCl, while the rT3 5'MDL is essentially unaffected, and both low and high Km T4 5'MD are minimally (approximately 20%) inhibited.
(17) Here we show that the subsequent survival and reproductive success of subordinate female red deer is depressed more by rearing sons than by rearing daughters, whereas the subsequent fitness of dominant females is unaffected by the sex of their present offspring.
(18) The morphological process of spermatogenesis is largely unaffected and motile sperm are produced, but meiocyte aneuploidy is common.
(19) The amplitude was 15-70% as large as the tonic component of the K-contracture induced by 40 mM K. Theophylline (10 mM), 0.1 mM papaverine and 1 microM isoprenaline nearly abolished, and 1 mM cAMP partly depressed the tonic contraction of K-contracture, whereas the tonic contraction induced by the test solution was unaffected.
(20) Their presence in the serum in unaffected by dialysis.